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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. You might see me on the TV screens next year. You know, actually, Eric, I want to tell you, actually, about a different patient, if you don’t mind, instead of Mr. A. At a standstill in rooms.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. Emily 06:27 Yes.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Nathan: Yeah.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. So the other part of that thing I would say is all of those things are true about the difference in rates between a community.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Darrell: And so I’d set up in conjunction with our emergency room team and our hospitalist, a 24/7 screening process for, at the time, anybody who’s over 65. The hospitalist didn’t want them screened, didn’t want to have any discussions with goals of care. The screening process is obviously shifted.