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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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On the other hand, there is a concerning side, described in this Guardian article titled, I’m a life coach, you’re a life coach: rise of an unregulated industry. Eric: … the acknowledgement more, do you want to specialize in geriatrics and be that your focus, or do you want to just have really good skills- Greg: Yes, absolutely.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. My voice is nothing special. I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist. Eric 04:42 There was even less on GeriPal. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. And then there’s also some financial benefit for the patient as well if they have to pay for room and board. Like, what does that part look like?

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

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This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Any thoughts about that?

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Thaddeus, you wrote an article in JAGS not too long ago.

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

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You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right?