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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:23 Yeah.

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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. Eric: But is that just something special about methadone and buprenorphine?

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Doctors for America Calls for Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Regulation

Doctors for America

Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID. We need all tools available to prevent complications of COVID-19. DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. It feels special to me. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me. What happened here?

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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. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. This shouldn’t have happened.

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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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