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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

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As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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

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So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. So that’s a title of a publication in qualitative health research.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) Of note, we talked about implicit bias in depth in this podcast with Kimberely Courseen.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal. Lauren: Yeah. Lauren: Yeah.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

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Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. And I’m only hoping the student who was with me can remember what the hell it was. But I was focused on his very ill wife. Are you trying to reach people in your local community?

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

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Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. Can I ask, how did it change you, how you think about talking to folks with serious illness? Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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