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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.

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

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. That was it.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Mike: It was really then it was when I was a internal medicine resident that I heard a Mary Oliver poem, and it really connected to where I was at.

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A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexity

Physician's Weekly

Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. Obesity medicine is likely heading the way of treatments for high blood pressure or diabetes, with three to five effective options for different types of patients. She said the impact she’s seen is life-changing.