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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Katie, before we jump into the topic of buprenorphine in serious illness, what’s the song request?

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

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A “Three-Stage Protocol” for Serious Illness Conversations: Reframing Communication in Real Time Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. What proportion of time do surrogates of seriously ill patients in the ICU rely solely on the doctor’s prognosis? Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more?

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. What does this diagnosis mean to you? You begin with psychosocial assessment and care. So hopefully that one.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. And we actually found that when she was really terminally ill, she had a cancer that was potentially curable if treated early, it was not. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups. There’s that recognition piece. Amber: Norm is, yeah.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. And that over time, if you look at people who have this transformation of acute into chronic pain, the transformation is not linked to the severity of your initial illness or your severe initial injury.