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

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How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Her most recent book is Elderhood. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Louise 00:26 Thanks for having me.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Naheed 21:58 Absolutely.