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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

But wait, before you throw out that equianalgesic table, we also invited Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD extraordinaire who published this amazing book, Demystifying Opioid Conversions , 2nd Ed., Until the second edition of my book, that is. Drew: She updated an equianalgesic table and published that in the second edition of her book.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

So I started asking around in terms of even my colleagues and so forth, you read about these little, like you say, paragraphs in books that say something about what you should do with hearing loss and testing for hearing loss, and making sure hearing aids are in place. Eric: And hearing loss is associated with a bunch of bad outcomes.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. What does that mean for dealing with chronic conditions and syndromes of aging, their health, does it have an impact? Eric 04:53 How is it public?

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Alex 00:20 We are delighted to welcome Anna Pleet, who did her medical training in Italy and is now doing internal medicine residency in the United States. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Glad to be here again.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. Some of these models I think include more medication management, some of them don’t.