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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. That’s what it is.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us. My goal is for all of you to answer yes to all three questions.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit.

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