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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Choosing the right primary care clinic involves considering several factors, such as clinic locations, healthcare system, and the services offered.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep? Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Relationships are usually more complicated. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Because this is where the seed of the idea started for all this music for me.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Alex 06:10 Or having watched that John Oliver episode about DaVita, we will have a link.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. We can make this better.