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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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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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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. And then if, let’s say they plan to switch to you as their primary care provider, then there are a few steps that you can take. So it coincided with that. Eric 05:59 Thank you.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

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There’s always questions, are we going to update the alternatives list that we did for the 2015? And it sounds like there was this alternatives list from 2015, and you’re considering maybe. It orexins and the melatonin receptor agonists? Todd: Well, we haven’t come out with a statement to that effect.

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

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And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Julien: It’s a good question.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. We’re available, palliative care.