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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables. The old table, 1.5 That’s what’s on the equianalgesic tables.

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How to choose between Pediatrics and Internal Medicine for post-graduation?

Tiny Physician

By the end of their internship a few undergraduate medical students would have decided on their favorite branch for residency, based on the limited experience that they had during their internship. Their physiology, spectrum of diseases and nutrition are totally different from that of an adult.

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

GeriPal

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? 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.

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

GeriPal

And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Julien: I like this question.

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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 he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. This shouldn’t have happened.