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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

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Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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

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Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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What’s your favorite book? Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. She has a new book coming out, but keep going. And they would freeze.

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

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And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? Naheed 15:53 Yeah, yeah.

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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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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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