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

GeriPal

But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo. Alex 13:34 MSTAR medical students in aging research apply now. I think the application medications are due soon, Eric.

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

GeriPal

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. So it’s a good question. Thank you.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. We know that this is necessary in theory, we know that health is not only absence of disease, but physical, social, and mental wellbeing.

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

GeriPal

So it’s a five component scale and it includes slow gate speed, weak and grip strength, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, and low physical activity, which I really like thinking about those components. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. Keri: What we can’t acknowledge within ourselves or say in words, it’ll come out in behaviors. We’ll act it out.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. We can make this better.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. They blame the medical student. Tell her she is a difficult student and then preserve the career of the guy who’s the surgeon bringing in the money.

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