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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 ). Maybe even had come in with a complication. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. Of the medication. Maybe a fall or delirium.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). difficile infections. One of your articles addresses that.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. That’s where they stick two people in the same slot for a 15-minute appointment which makes it a seven-and-a-half minute appointment. There were embezzlers in the clinic.

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