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

GeriPal

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Clinical experience. It’s right there.

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

GeriPal

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. At a standstill in rooms.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. Emily 03:59 Medicine is both a science and an art. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that.

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