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

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The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Ethical and practical. I guess those are the questions.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach 07:50 Yeah, it’s funny to even think about it now because our palliative program has changed so much culturally in terms of how we think about managing patients with cancer and substance use disorders.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, there’s my complaint. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

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Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. Not my normal clinical practice. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me.

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