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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. This is obviously ordered by a gastroenterologist, but But the probe itself measures reflux, and then the patient can press a button for an event monitor.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events.

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Green Practice News – The Climate Issue June 2025

My Green Doctor

In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. Without closing this gap, healthcare systems everywhere will struggle to meet rising demands, especially in vulnerable communities where climate change is accelerating inequality and suffering.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. Participants were critically ill and intubated. Participants were critically ill and intubated.

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

GeriPal

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning. And I think, oh, there was something she did besides getting cancer and dying, which requires such a focus, you know, cancer and terminal illness of any kind. You can call and we answer the phone.

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