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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. Physical activity is a big one. But there are some things that we really think we can modify: the vascular risk factors, sleep, physical activity, maybe cognitive activity, and what kind of bang for the buck could we get? Should I do neuro?

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

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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. I’m an internal medicine physician. We prescribe medicines. Alison and I go way back.

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

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So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And so those are all options that are available. And I can actually refer my patients directly to.

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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

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Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations.

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

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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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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. ” I asked the student, “Did you find legs on your physical exam?” Why did you think that?”