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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Shout out to the UC Berkeley-USCF Joint Medical Program.

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