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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. This is Eric Widera. Should I do neuro?

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. My voice is nothing special.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Susan: Thank you.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . I think that there are times when we use humor to cope, and that’s a special and very tender space for of people to share in, but is not something that you want to expose to the light of the world. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Did I read that right on your page?

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. A pill organizer, having family.

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

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Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. 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.