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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. What’s in a story?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. And so, let’s help them.

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

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It was also the time that in 2015, that people who were trans and famous really put being trans on the map at that time, too. Jace 30:29 For a long caregiver challenges and not, you know, having to go into spaces that are heavily like hetero and cis normative in terms of how they provide services, how they navigate relationships.

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

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Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. So I would love to hear.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. We discuss the moral distress that clinicians felt including, as one physician put it, a sense of your soul being ripped out.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

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In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. So being well and also potentially periods of dying.

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