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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

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I was coaching someone this morning, who really wanted to know, what does your clinic template look like, and how do you respond to patient messages? Similar to how we often will say to patients, “A good therapist should potentially offer you an hour, in which you can see whether it’s a good fit.” Vicky: Yeah.

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

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We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Scientific American Letter to the Editor: Response to Downar et al.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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And I wonder if that is key in patients, people who are experiencing homelessness as well. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients.