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

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So, I see the potential of coaching, particularly for groups that face challenges in academic medicine; and I worry about the injection of profit-motives and the goals of industry leaders pushing the meteoric rise of the life coach industry. Medicine’s a tough road for everybody, and we put all kinds of barriers in the way in addition.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Yael, welcome to GeriPal.

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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. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. Malaz: 1999, my friend.