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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Since my mom died in 2020 until I wrote this piece in the fall of last year, I had not ever expected or intended to write about my experience. This was in May of 2020. But it’s May 2020. Eric: Yeah.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Did this primary palliative care intervention in the emergency room involving a. So it’s probably not one sentence, but it’s worth a good read for anybody in this field.

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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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The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. That’s where you’ll get started.

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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.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. .

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. Annals of Int Med.

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