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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Ethical and practical. Connie 14:57 Yeah.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. And that’s what makes these issues so challenging, because at one level, we use the same term to refer to that incredibly multifactorial, complicated, complex condition as we do to stress incontinence, which is also complex in its own way.

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

GeriPal

Complicated grief? Sarah: And I think this is something I’ve taken into my clinical practice of we should be thinking about planning more broadly, really. And I know a lot of our social work colleagues and our nurses, I think at least in our practice, do a lot more of that. Did they have PTSD? Depression?

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

GeriPal

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on. Cachexia is one of those that kind of always confuses me.

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