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

GeriPal

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. This is Eric Widera.

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Why I don’t do “weight loss” as a primary care physician

Vida Family Medicine

From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. This can be disheartening, leading to a cycle of stricter diets, increased frustration, and worse physical and mental health. If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. Most clinical physicians are busy.

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Sleep problems and Insomnia in Serious Illness: A Podcast wtih Cathy Alessi and Brienne Miner

GeriPal

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Sleep is a focus of your academic and clinical career. ” That actually happens a lot in the sleep clinic. Cathy: Thank you.

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

GeriPal

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 there’s an event or a series of events. So there’s an event or a series of events. I guess that’s an event.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago. We’re talking about liver.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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