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

GeriPal

Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Maybe even had come in with a complication. Eric 20:51 And your deprescribing was on hospital discharge. Why is that? 1 in 8 in the U.S.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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How to choose between Pediatrics and Internal Medicine for post-graduation?

Tiny Physician

By the end of my internship, I was quite interested in Internal Medicine (IM) and wanted to pursue the same for my residency. This article is for those who are perplexed between IM or Pediatrics and want to know more about the subject in detail and the possible circumstances that they will have to face during residency.

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

GeriPal

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. Tyler 01:43 Okay. Join me on rounds.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Susan: Thank you.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Many were community hospitals.