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5 Baby Safety Tips from a Family Physician and Mom

Vida Family Medicine

Try to get as much rest as you can and have your partner or other family members help with infant care during the day and overnight. If you are feeling this way, put your child down in a safe place and have your partner or a friend or family member take care of your child while you take a break to rest.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, that’s why we did this project, the Delphi panel, to say what really should be recommended for medical and mental health care in assisted living?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. That put me in the emergency room. Eric 45:00 And then mental health disorders, schizophrenia, like, how do you think about that? But you really should be looking at family history, personal history. Eloise 45:05 I definitely worry about.

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

GeriPal

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. But it’s the story also.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation?

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