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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. This is obviously ordered by a gastroenterologist, but But the probe itself measures reflux, and then the patient can press a button for an event monitor.

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Green Practice News – The Climate Issue June 2025

My Green Doctor

We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. This means: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between the environment and illness.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge?

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

GeriPal

It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. There was a living room that you could rent.

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