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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 ). I mean, the Laura, Carolyn and big shout out to Dr. Carolyn, who she and I were sleep fellows together and she’s a psychiatrist in private practice. Of the medication.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

Part of my job was to encourage students' interest in primary care careers and mentor those who chose to enter family medicine. The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4% The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4%

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