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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. But I just don’t expect my medical students, residents and generalist colleagues to do that and to have that. Tell me your thoughts.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars.

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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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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. Where are my colleagues?”

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

GeriPal

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. Are you trying to reach people in your local community? When I write, I learn a ton from that.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

When I was a medical student, I actually worked with Elizabeth in her research group at OHSU. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. Anna 07:06 Thank you.

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PRESS RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for Evidence-Based Solutions After FSU Shooting

Doctors for America

Last week, at least six individuals were hospitalized and two have died following a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Just days earlier, multiple students were wounded in a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas , almost a year after another shooting there.