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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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. This is Eric Widera.

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

GeriPal

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. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. And like 99.8%

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Dr. Pamela Wible soon discovered why. To be real.

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