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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The Warner Bros.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Eric, do you want me to go first?

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. It’s really a pretty traumatic experience for a lot of patients and families. And I had a blast playing Take the Money and Run!

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. I don’t see a lot of those out there. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place. Yeah, yeah.