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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Heard-Garris draws parallels between the culture within the carceral system and that within hospitals and clinics. For clinicians who do not work within jails or prisons, it is important to recognize the presence of these same issues within other clinical spaces. Basic Books, 2022.

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

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time. I’m guessing not.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

And sometimes that means contributing to the scholarship or teaching, even if it’s teaching the residents that come through the hospital or guest lecturing in the class, these things are sustaining to us as professionals. But then I like to also see there be time for scholarship and a recognition of that.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? It’s tough.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

So whether it’s an encounter with a patient or whether it’s a family meeting or a clinical practice meeting or a feedback session with a fellow, the idea that we have both the ability to be very full and open and also selective and disciplined about how it is that we. We were often the only ones left in the hospital.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Like, does that indirect? Is that also a trauma? Kate 41:32 Yeah.

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