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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. Physical activity is a big one. 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. Should I do neuro?

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

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Maybe even had come in with a complication. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right?

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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. I’m an internal medicine physician. We prescribe medicines. Nice to be on.

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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. And, Emily, I got to ask you, you’re a palliative care doctor. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. Thank you.

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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. Brianna is one of UCSF’s palliative care fellows who just completed her psychiatry residency. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We

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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 it’s really, really complicated. That’s a great question.