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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. I’m an internal medicine physician.

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

GeriPal

Maybe even had come in with a complication. Emily 19:52 You know, some complication that might have even like, you know, kind of triggered that thought process about maybe it’s time for me to come off of the medication and just. It’s called Danton, and it was just published mid last year, mid 2024. Of the medication.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

In 2024, the NIH funded six short-term research projects totaling over $1 million. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We This multi-disciplinary research program will focus on public health tracking and surveillance of the community’s health conditions.”

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of?

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And as things sometimes happen in surgery, patients can experience complications and one complication, particularly in someone who’s frail, who’s not buying the cabbage, maybe they’re buying the chard at the farmer’s market.

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