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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. But I think there’s a lot on us and I don’t necessarily think that we’re doing anything with ill intent because we want to do right by our patients. They have a lot of chronic conditions. Go ahead, Connie. Michelle 34:35 Absolutely.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

So, every single [inaudible 00:05:10] there is per the table, in an equianalgesic relationship to one another. And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. How to screen for hearing loss.

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

FDA Law Blog

This Assessment does not itself prescribe specific remedies for the ills it diagnoses; those are supposedly coming in the future Strategy document. The Assessment states that this prescribing is tantamount to doing direct harm, given the known and unknown risks and benefits of drugs in these contexts of use.