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

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What should we use to screen individuals? I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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

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Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. I hope the law continues to allow flexibility in individualism. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” Laurie, how about you?

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