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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. Alex 00:24 Great.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. So it, it really goes any direction. And it has a great impact. But back to the point.

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

GeriPal

And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. 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. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. Emily 04:57 Yeah, it’s been about eight years.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Have you thought about that?

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. And that biases them because they’re immortal in a sense, until that event happens. Maria 36:03 Yes. Eric 36:04 Is that fair?

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. From my standpoint, you want to think practically, okay? We’ve got to think through how to accommodate some of these limitations. A pill organizer, having family.