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Tinder Profiles By Specialty

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Emergency Medicine: Ill do anything you want to do, it just takes me 4 hours and a couple tests to figure out what it is. Family Practice: Whatever youd like to do, I can handle it. Internal Medicine: I dont care if youre a bit older and have a lot of problems! ENT: Like the Weber test, I lateral one toward bad conduct!

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from?

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010.

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

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And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative. Eric 26:01 Curtis’s, he had a 2014 JAMA article on simulation. We looked at reach. We did some qualitative. Basically vital talk.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. To learn more about what we talked about, check out the following links: Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S.