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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. That’s one key interested party.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. And one in five people had a serious COVID complication.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

If you are concerned that your silence can be a form of complicity and bad behavior, too, we have a certain amount of expertise. We talk to patients and we talk to families, and we don’t, like, base it on what we read in the media. There is a tension. Eric 29:15 Yeah. Because any candidate prognostication does matter.

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