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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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Alex: Well, today, we’re delighted to welcome Beth Griffiths, who’s a Primary Care Internist and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF in Leeds, a coaching program for general internists, also at UCSF. Medicine’s a tough road for everybody, and we put all kinds of barriers in the way in addition. Beth: Thank you.

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

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Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Did they ask for a consult?” The growth of our field, dissemination of palliative care principles through books like Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, now a bestseller, honoring those in religious traditions who have contributed to thinking about our mortality.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Wait, what ? .

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. I’m trying to get upstream people who don’t have palliative care consult because I think we do capture narratives in our palliative care notes. I see you’ve heard of it.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up. Decision making hierarchies by default. And they say, no, there’s no end with that.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. What is sludge?