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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? We prescribe medicines.

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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. I think actually that’s a way to link the inpatient and the outpatient, because the inpatient measure domain 4 has a social vulnerability domain where you have to screen for social isolation. I think it’s.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Great to be here.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. So the reasons for not screening are time constraint.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. They once said every child, not every child but many children got diabetes from COVID. Wow, 75% of our children have had COVID, we’d be seeing a lot of children with diabetes. One is in the Annals of Internal Medicine.