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

GeriPal

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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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. However, for many high-income healthcare professionals, investing in more than just one’s employer retirement plan will be commonplace. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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

GeriPal

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think.

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

GeriPal

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. So in your electronic health records, I think it’s really important to have that and include a question about pronouns and assigned sex at birth, because that’s the only way for us to really see the individual for who they are.

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

GeriPal

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0

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

GeriPal

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers. Eric: And how did you do that? Why did you do this study, Tom?