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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. Brianna is one of UCSF’s palliative care fellows who just completed her psychiatry residency. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of life care. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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

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And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. That’s a great question.

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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. And it just really upset me internally that we were living in a society where we were letting people fall through the cracks again, again, again and again at the end of life. They want a care model that’s flexible, not rigid.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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For more, Laura suggests a book titled, How to Talk to a Science Denier. It’s like a third of people need chemical or physical restraints to keep that in. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. How about parents advocating for a child?

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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. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.