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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

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Other Persistent Barriers & Potential Solutions In another article not presented at the meeting, Stephanie W. Waldrop, MD , and colleagues identified barriers to obesity medications more broadly—and potential solutions. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

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Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. Welcome, Ariel. Ariel: Thanks.

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Push To Move OB-GYN Exam Out of Texas Is Piece of AGs’ Broader Reproductive Rights Campaign

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.” Since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022, 16 states , including Texas, have implemented laws banning abortion almost entirely, and many of them impose criminal penalties on providers as well as options to sue doctors. There is no deadline for a decision to be made.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. I can figure out how to provide care in this way. Summary Transcript Summary.

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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!) And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No What are the experiences that have shaped you?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF. Alex: Yeah.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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