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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu. He References 1. Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Eric 20:51 And your deprescribing was on hospital discharge.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. David: Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So what’s amazing about these guidelines, so if you go to 12 different hospitals and ask them, “How are you managing psychiatric conditions and mental health concerns in the context of palliative care?” For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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

GeriPal

He died in 2024. Like, I’ve had people who’ve appointed their super as their healthcare decision makers and certainly, I mean, I feel like every, every time we talk about what’s changed in, in day to day life, we reflect on Covid. I’m a little bit of a throwback kind of 70s 80s guy.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

Alex 00:26 And we’re delayed to welcome Amanda Moment, who is a palliative care social worker at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter.

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