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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Eric: What was that paper?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Despite your background, Alex.