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

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I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. I let my boards lapse a few years ago. This guy came alive.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She falls and breaks her hip. She has advance dementia.