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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. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. There’s the variation between the hospitals, feels like there’s cultural issues that play a role. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Eric: Yeah.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation. Despite your background, Alex.