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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

So, Dr. McPherson, as far as I can tell, she’s really the only person in our professional community who in any sort of serious public way said, folks we need to do something about this. I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. The old table, 1.5

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. and hear about their programs.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. And I believe it needs the community.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. That’s just one hypothesis.