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A Pearl From Medical School

A Country Doctor Writes

I’ve never heard any of my American colleagues talk about that, although there are several articles about the connection if you Google it. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia.

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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. We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. 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.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

During our post-medical school residency years, we are trained by many different types of doctors including pediatricians, OB/GYNs, surgeons, psychiatrists, neurologists, ENTs and more. Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. He’s a linguistic and medical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We’ve got a, Sheryl published a great article, and Kenny and Ken published an editorial for that article. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. So you have your room and board, very little help. I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs.

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

GeriPal

We are fortunate to have Tammie Quest, emergency and palliative trained and long a leader in this space, to help us unpack and contextualize these findings. Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.