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

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice?

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

GeriPal

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. And then we had clinical decision support.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. This could be something that meshes with your life and medicine. His work has been published in places like the L.A. Nathan: I do.

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

GeriPal

Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. I’m originally an ER physician. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a. That was beautiful.

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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. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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