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

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And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. Areej: I think it was 2016.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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

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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. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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

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Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. I mean, the fact is that intensive care, as you said, Alex, I mean we invoke it as a way of trying to, in a very intensive focused way, attend to people who are in physical, biologically in dire straits. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. Eric: Yeah.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah. What’s in it again? It’s a measure of function.

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

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Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? They could have diagnosed him earlier. 2015, 2016.