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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. So we need to understand how to get that front and center in how we care for people moving forward into the future. Attendee 17: There’s not enough of us doing this great work. Eric: Tell me more.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Doctors want to know whether the patient has died. And one of the principal driving factors behind doctors wanting to know whether the patient has died, I think we need to acknowledge, is harvesting organs for transplant. And if that criteria.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Family history of febrile seizures. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about.

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