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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Their research showed promising results for lab rats, and they plan to carry out the first human trials in the second half of 2017 and gather preliminary results during 2018.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

I think part of it’s the math, but I think what really happened is, I think the story here is that in 2018, MD Anderson published this really landmark study by Dr. Reddy and her colleagues about going from IV Dilaudid to other to oral Dilaudid, oral hydromorphone, I should say, oral morphine and oral oxycodone. Landmark study.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? Goldilocks zone). Listen in to learn more!

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Then listen to these prior podcasts with Sean Morrison and Rebecca Sudore about this issue, and we recently discussed differences between Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Communication with Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki. . 2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Where does POLST fit in with this debate?

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. David 12:34 Yeah.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Weren’t those the days?

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. We know that a department of healthcare cannot give it. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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