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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. We prescribe medicines.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. I was a psychobiology major, surprise, surprise, one of the first at Yale.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. There really was very little.

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

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This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. Prior-auth forms?

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And although it wasn’t a conscious decision, or connection, in my mind between entering medicine and the experience of having grown up in a family with Ellen. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. For example, here’s a quote from somebody at a high intensity hospital, “There’s a culture from the top of the healthcare system down.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. I think it’s really, really complicated. So, that part was not surprising.