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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual.

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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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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. 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.

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

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Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. This is what gets to be complicated for standardization. Do we know these individual things really work in big randomized control?

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

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And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? And we have these.

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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. It’s not explainable that each individual physician has independently arrived at this very aggressive practice pattern.

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Lucid Episodes: Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi & Andrew Peterson

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Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. Andrew, you might remember more about it with individuals who I think were maybe in the neuro ICU and they are undergoing resuscitation. It, like, looks real good. And the Clin.