Adventures of a Sick Doctor

MARCH 24, 2020

I have consumed so much information in the past two weeks that whatever comes out of my head now is simply a mish-mash of other people's words, advice and opinions. We are aware that many of the people who have died from Covid19 around the world have been healthcare workers. I am no longer the master of my own thoughts.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? And great to meet Jace on here.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah: Yeah I similarly feel like, you know, focusing more on the process, the qualitative kind of from a research standpoint, the qualitative information that we’re getting from folks. And I wonder when we think about targeting particular population, it’s not just, you know, how seriously ill they are. Hillary or Sarah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

James: Yeah, I mean, first of all, I think anything in medicine is not going to be like a slam dunk type thing, except when we’re dealing with like insulin and type one diabetes it’s pretty obvious. It’s also important for us to think about when is it going to be helpful. Alex: Thanks.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. He was a terrible diabetic. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. But she also thinks that would have been the perfect death.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? But we have very little information, almost no information. And so there are other new treatments that I hope also will inform RSV and other RNA viruses. It could be terrible there.

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