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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? Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. I have hired coaches based on referrals.

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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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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. Eric: Let’s say I have a panel of older adults that I’m seeing, or a palliative care outpatient clinic. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. So if healthcare staff are concerned, custodial staff are concerned, the other incarcerated people. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. And then they entered.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

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I started out being interested in prognostic communication, and I work now in a cancer center, in the cancer center at mgh, where the early palliative care trials happened. And we’re still early palliative care trials are on. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here. Are you a hammer? Like, we just.

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