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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

Ettinger, who died in 2011, went on to found the Cryonics Institute in Michigan where he, his mother and his first and second wives all now reside in metal flasks kept at −196 °C. Wake me up when cryosleep ends The trouble with cryogenics and cryosleep is pure physics: our cells are filled with water.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. ” I asked the student, “Did you find legs on your physical exam?” SPONSOR: .

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

GeriPal

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin. We need to get Harvey on GeriPal.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

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. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Haider: That was a great story.