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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. Proposing the clinicians ask a simple follow up question to the usual “do you feel safe at home?”

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

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Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. You said this journey started for you back in what? Malaz: 1999, my friend.