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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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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. But then there is incontinence, which is the same term, same word, but actually presents as a geriatric syndrome.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. The biomarker discovery is tremendous, and I think truly will change the entire way ADRD is diagnosed and conceptualized in some ways. Should I do neuro?

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

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Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right?

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

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And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults?

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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

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And finally, Wendy offers a drawing lesson and ONE-MINUTE drawing assignment to help us (and our listeners) be more present and connect with one another. First you have to be a volunteer and see what it’s like to be present at the bedside. The rules are really quite simple: Find another person. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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I’m fully present. So Brian wrote this article in JAMA Internal Medicine arguing that we should take the word intensive out of intensive care units. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. I mean, that is western medicine described in three words. I’m not distracted. ” Eric: Yeah.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Before the primary care visit. Danny 10:07 Yep, that was the goal.