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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). And I think DNR and transport to hospital are those kinds of things. He was the special prosecutor. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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

GeriPal

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. This is Eric Widera.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. What do we know about.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here?

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

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. Eric: Okay.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there. .” And then another few months, and then another few months. That is beautiful.

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