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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin.

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

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I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. ” I asked the student, “Did you find legs on your physical exam?” Why did you think that?”

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. And I was an internal medicine resident. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation.