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Episode 95: Human Dx unknown with Sharmin & Mercy residents – Hypernatremia

The Clinical Problem Solvers

His favorite thing about internal medicine is is the profound sense of accomplishment he feels when replacing electrolytes that are just slightly below the normal range. However, about one week prior to starting my massage therapy program, he had an epiphany and decided to go to medical school instead.

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How to choose between Pediatrics and Internal Medicine for post-graduation?

Tiny Physician

By the end of their internship a few undergraduate medical students would have decided on their favorite branch for residency, based on the limited experience that they had during their internship. By the end of my internship, I was quite interested in Internal Medicine (IM) and wanted to pursue the same for my residency.

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? She has a TED talk. When were you.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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

GeriPal

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. . Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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

GeriPal

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. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco

GeriPal

And maybe, just maybe, we convince that poetry skeptic Eric Widera that there is a place for poetry in medicine after all. Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF.

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