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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. And that’s because we were on the podcast.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. He’s in Boston. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I know I do primarily inpatient work.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

It always has clinical relevance to practice today. So I’m going to ask Eric and Ken to identify their favorite topic that they’ve covered to discuss any of the updates that they’re thinking that can be relevant to clinical care of older people. Nancy 17:10 So there’s a follow up. Ken 26:02 Okay.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? Eric: Six months ago. Ramona: Glomerular Filtration Raterate. I probably should have said GFR.

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

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Ashwin 18:08 These are things that we often see from a clinical standpoint.

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

GeriPal

Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? Alex brought up the ESAs, the Edmonton symptom assessment scale. Like, how would I define it?

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