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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. We think of it really as a kind of a management tool as well. Alison and I go way back. Welcome to GeriPal.

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

GeriPal

. = Within the VA , there’s a program called Whole Health, which is really about trying to engage patients in many different modalities for pain management and just self care. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. And so those are all options that are available.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. That is not why I went into medicine. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations.

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

GeriPal

People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. One of our first podcasts, over 300 podcasts ago, was with Nate Goldstein, who studies heart failure management in older adults, and particularly older adults nearing the end of life. Was it sodium hf?

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

GeriPal

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. And this gets called, disparagingly, music medicine, where doctors, because they have a license, they just use music like they would use a drug. I am not a board certified. I’m a doctor.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.