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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We These funds would be a lifeline for many families who are still grappling with health concerns and some economic hardship,” she said. But experts say it can be hard to link cancers directly to the chemicals from the crash.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She falls and breaks her hip. She has advance dementia.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. It’s amazing how often when we’re taking care of somebody in the hospital, if you have Say, you know, a family member who is not showing up for visits with the medical team or who is. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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

GeriPal

And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners. Their family members want them to get out of the hospital sooner. If not, why not? And that’s key.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Matt: I was going to say that you said something very clearly that we’ve heard in our NIH funded study around AI based prognostication talking to patients and family members and so on, that there’s a comfort level when it’s being used to identify people who might benefit from palliative care or benefit sooner.

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

The world of diets and dietary theories is complicated and can be overwhelming. Yes, both are important, but family, faith, work, money and the environment we create matter too. We follow ALL VACCINATION GUIDELINES set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Medicine! Learn more.","robots":"index","keywords":"skin