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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2020, with higher percentages of patients with more favorable pathology or lower PSA levels choosing one of these strategies. Of note, men older than 80 years were more than four times as likely to choose observation than men in their 50s (24.9% and 6.1%, respectively).

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. We make a diagnosis. Medicine’s a tough road for everybody, and we put all kinds of barriers in the way in addition. From Beth Israel and UNC.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. It has to do with genetics, 30%, 10% your diagnosis, the other 60% is your built-in environment, educational status, income and your personal choices. They’re afraid of losing their independence. Our network helps to maintain that independence.

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

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Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Then it really wasn’t until I got into medicine, medical school and residency, that I discovered poetry per se, and a mentor commented, I think to a number of us on this podcast, Steve McKee introduced me to poetry.

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

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.