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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Here we go.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

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Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. As many as 40% of these children will receive a chest x-ray (CXR) during their ED visit despite clinical guidelines advising most of these tests are low value.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. Alex 36:08 Yeah.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. So … Barbara: Yeah.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. ” Very specific, rare circumstance. I’m sure we all have the same issue. Alex: Okay.

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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

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LJ: I’ll take that one that I feel really strongly that we are not assessing the right outcomes in advance care planning, and I think that’s part of the problem, is that we I think we do this in a lot of science and a lot of research in clinical medicine too. Hillary: So those all differ. Alex: LJ, are you going to add to that?

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri. What words to use?

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