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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Summary Transcript Summary. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Transcript. Here we go.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Summary Transcript Summary. Wonderful work. SPONSOR: .

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

So take a listen and if you are up for it, check out some of Haider’s other books including Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life and State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease. . Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. This is hurting me.

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Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Physician's Weekly

“We are facing the collision of two policies here that could further erode staffing in nursing homes and present health outcome challenges,” said Eric Roberts , an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. . It also operates a retirement community in Washington, D.C.