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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

Despite the emphasis on U=U as a key HIV prevention strategy since 2016, none of the included studies explicitly described U=U or U=U messaging as an intervention component,” the researchers wrote. The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. And how am I going to manage their pain? Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We used all of our political capital to make sure it happens in Chicago, which is where we started for the literature Updates back in 2016, back when it was just me and Ken, and then we brought in Alex, like two years later. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. Go Cubs, go.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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

GeriPal

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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

GeriPal

As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away. If yes, was it more, less, or the right amount of pain management? People across all diagnoses want hospice care.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. To diagnose, to come up with a formulation, to be able to really get hold of the cause of this individual suffering. We began this here in Winnipeg. I mean, that is western medicine described in three words.