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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 ). Our first guest is Emily McDonald, who’s a physician in general medicine and epidemiologist and Associate professor at McGill. We’re still working on this issue. Alex 01:23 Yeah.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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

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Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What is making this hard for me?

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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Graphic Medicine. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Graphic Novels. I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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And it just really upset me internally that we were living in a society where we were letting people fall through the cracks again, again, again and again at the end of life. Eric 05:34 Let me ask you this, is that probably every one of us and every intern and resident has cared for a Terry. Homelessness? Marginally housed?

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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. Jessica, welcome back to GeriPal.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves?