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

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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. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. Eric: Whose job, though, is it? Mazie: Yes.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. But really was a seminal pioneering figure in the field of bioethics, palliative care, et cetera. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.