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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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

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The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Ethical and practical. So we did primary care.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. George 00:28 Hi, guys. Nice to be on.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. But in my practice it’s usually from another oncologist, typically a medical oncologist. Is it normally the oncologist who’s making the referrals to you or do they come from people outside of oncology?

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

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The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice? And that was something I saw, like in my med site clinic. And so bathe is an acronym. In a study, they’re very helpful.

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

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We additionally have a debate/discussion about which outcomes of ACP matter most, including Terri Fried’s commentary in JAGS that caregiver outcomes matter more than goal concordant care (the “holy grail”), completion of advance directives, or changes in health care services use. Complicated grief? Did they have PTSD?

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. But I think it’s clear that paying for an RN is cheaper than having a doctor and having a brick-and-mortar clinic, even if telehealth is a part of that. Tom: Yeah, I think it is different.