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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. times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. .” We’re done with that, so now what we do is we encourage our friends, our colleagues, to screen for spiritual need, one or two questions that help them identify distress and help them know what to do with those, not, “Would you like to see a chaplain.”

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. They wanted you to be respectful of their cultural beliefs and their, you know, faith beliefs that were driving their health and illness. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. So really very honored to have you on here. Monica: Yeah.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. There is a tension.

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