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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus. Was it at somebody’s house or.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

GeriPal

I had heard of course heard of imposter syndrome in the past but I didn’t make the connection to myself until I read this article and saw my thoughts printed on the page. Even declining to review an article for a journal is accompanied by some stomach knots (it’s so hard to find reviewers!) Eric: Yeah. Bob: Yeah.

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