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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 mean, the Laura, Carolyn and big shout out to Dr. Carolyn, who she and I were sleep fellows together and she’s a psychiatrist in private practice. Of the medication.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. When we think about social interactions.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Well, luckily she came out of this alive, went to a follow-up appointment with a neurologist who basically said, “Oh you’re a resident, we see this all the time in the residents.” 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.

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