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Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey

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It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. This is Eric Widera , and only 300 and something podcasts in. I’m figuring things out still. Holly 01:23 Thank you.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. Do you want one? You don’t want the gummy? They just kept at it.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

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First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Simple, right?

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Alex: How is your family doing?

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

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And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. What’s your favorite book? Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. This guy came alive.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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They’re starting to decompose even in the toes and fingers, and we’ll sit there and tell their family, we think they’re suffering, because we are suffering watching them, and we want them to make a decision that’ll make us feel better and take the suffering away as quickly as possible. What are you seeing?”

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

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The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice? So if we look at the strict diagnostic criteria, yes, there are kind of time based components to that. And so bathe is an acronym.

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