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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 ). So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. The results showed a modest but significant increase in deprescribing rates among the intervention group.

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

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Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . ” And I thankfully haven’t had anybody decline an appointment or something that I knew of because I did this. I share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice. I had one ready.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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They’re more, more interested in relationship centered care than the fancy medicines that you’re. 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. They want to feel like they’re supported.

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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. So we actually included that in our survey.