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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. I don’t have access to change the levers of government. There’s plenty more to learn, but within the knowledge base that we currently have, we can do a lot of good for people. Ana chodos, what should I be?

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. Besides all else, like, yeah, there’s things. What’s wrong with advanced directives? Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. Alex 15:37 Yeah.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.