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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Did they ask for a consult?” She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. So I got back into it anonymously. That blew my mind. .”

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. If the consult is for “code status,” I always ask them, take a look at your past conversations. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. But we gave it as an option.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. I love it and, but I just wondering as I’m doing inpatient consults or people are doing outpatient care or you’re caring for people and you don’t have this program, let’s say you can advocate for. Alex 40:07 Thank you.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. And I remember interviewing Captain Sullenberger for my book, and as he was describing accidents like this, he said, “They were flying a plane they were not familiar with, which is a plane without their digital wingman.”

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