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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

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. We think of it really as a kind of a management tool as well. Alison and I go way back. Welcome to GeriPal.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Maybe even had come in with a complication. Emily 19:52 You know, some complication that might have even like, you know, kind of triggered that thought process about maybe it’s time for me to come off of the medication and just. . So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor.

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

GeriPal

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. That is not why I went into medicine. 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.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations.

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

GeriPal

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. And this gets called, disparagingly, music medicine, where doctors, because they have a license, they just use music like they would use a drug. Relationships are usually more complicated.

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

GeriPal

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 we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.