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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. There’s plenty more to learn, but within the knowledge base that we currently have, we can do a lot of good for people.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Emergency rooms.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law Blog

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. Public comments must be submitted electronically or postmarked on or before July 22, 2024, 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. You don’t have to make this decision because we have this information right here.”

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