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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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

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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). We talk about: .

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. And thank you for the unbelievably great work you do, educating so many people and doing it with a smile and with music. That makes sense. Give one to the patients.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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And so one of the patients that we mentioned in that article is a gentleman who lived four hours away who was unable to come to chemotherapy appointments because his pain was so debilitating once we gave him not a huge amount of opioids, he was actually able to come get chemotherapy and then live for much longer. I want to be mindful of time.