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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician.

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

GeriPal

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I didn’t really know, similar to what Evie was talking about, how to provide any anticipatory guidance or to know what to expect in residency. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic. Well, there’s my complaint. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

And the role of the palliative care provider is to figure out, knowing that different things affect different people, is what causes somebody in that particular instance to feel their dignity is being undermined. And the data was saying, “What is really important is the way you, the care provider, experience that person.”

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues.

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