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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying. There must be a good reason why, you know, they miss this appointment because they value this, but they have a lot of other things on their plate. Government is not the 51st state.

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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. The post The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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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.