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

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right?

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

GeriPal

And I was particularly drawn to the cancer patient population and really thinking about that integration into standard care. 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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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. So I guess this is true to my promise for improvisation, but I wanted to make my story a little bit of a love letter to palliative care.

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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. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And I was an internal medicine resident. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. One of the definitions I liked a lot was the late Eric Cassell’s definition-.