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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

There’s an article about her in New York Times. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. But it seems very apropos to the topic. Soo 01:37 It’s a little obvious. Anna 01:38 Yeah. Alex 01:38 And I love that Sarah McLaughlin’s having a comeback.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? Jennifer: Thanks.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? Do you worry about that? This is terrific.

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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. Laurie, how about you?

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? Alex: Okay.

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

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means. Why do so many (most, all??)