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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing.

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

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. Not a lot of blogs out there. That’s what she does. So I don’t use a lot of touch. Stop being the expert.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered. Leonie: Between Canada and most of the states that have legalized it’s assisted suicide in the US. And like 99.8%

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us. I personally have one because I have a blog. She’s in Alaska.

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