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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. And this is an.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. We can figure out how to keep them in the hospital for a month, or do all these other imaging tests, but we can’t do this one thing. William: Not the future, but the present.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. But I think the most important thing is just to, to recognize, to ask these types of questions. I think it’s.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? Eric: Six months ago. Ramona: Glomerular Filtration Raterate. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes.

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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Health care system drives where you end up, which hospital, which state you live in. Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. I think I’m preventing some potential extra non synthesis that is not happening because you are lacking that bottleneck little hydrosoluble vitamin that might be present. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on.

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