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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

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But wait, before you throw out that equianalgesic table, we also invited Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD extraordinaire who published this amazing book, Demystifying Opioid Conversions , 2nd Ed., Until the second edition of my book, that is. Drew: She updated an equianalgesic table and published that in the second edition of her book.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

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First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

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– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. All the time. ;).

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

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Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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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. . And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. Wait, what ? .

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

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And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. That’s just one hypothesis.