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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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

GeriPal

We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. Of these interventions in those individuals.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Try to really understand what’s happening.