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

GeriPal

We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. As my colleague mentioned, I am not a whole person to my medical record, I am a collection of codes. We’re very datified.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. So yes, humans make mistakes. Set it and forget it!

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. They’re really not. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions.

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

GeriPal

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Eric 04:53 How is it public? Can you tell me about that? Making sure.