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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. And to keep it short work for an article. Because this revolving door in the emergency room was basically assault and battery, if you will. Joan: Thanks. Eric: Yeah.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

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See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Diane: Yeah.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.