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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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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

GeriPal

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 he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. 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. Here we go.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. This is Eric Widera.

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

GeriPal

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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We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. I mean, these visits with pcps are 15 minutes.