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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? And, they thought, “This is a racket. ” Love it.

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

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Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Areej: I think it was 2016. Eric: 2016. I have oncology on the brain. What year did it come out?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. And that really created an opportunity to study this.