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JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. Maybe even had come in with a complication.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

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I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

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And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it.

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Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. Thank you.

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Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones.

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So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart. And I was.

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