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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. How long ago?

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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. However, The Medical Futurist is not sure whether a form of deep sleep will be enough if we want to travel light years.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. This delineation of you can use the same medication for one indication without training. Janet: Great question.

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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. About us – Dignity in Care. Research Team – Dignity in Care. Other links: Curiosity by Faith Fitgerald.

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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. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

I love his just because this is a palliative care audience in the article that then turned into being mortal, New Yorker, I don’t know, circa 2011 or something. I was like, I’m fascinated when I read medical books and they’re quoting patients these long paragraphs. Louise: I think that’s his MO. Eric: Yeah.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. I thought I couldn’t finish medical school.