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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. Updated 2023 Jul 17]. Brad’s not a pediatric medical geneticist. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. And I was.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. What medical intervention saves health dollars, costs less than not doing it? They didn’t go to the psych ER again.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program. And that’s more standard.

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