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

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Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. 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. I let my boards lapse a few years ago.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

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? We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. She has advance dementia. Eric: Yeah.