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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Joe 18:38 Yeah, you know, it’s interesting, Soo, I’m doing a county by county visit here in Minnesota where I actually give a presentation on the basics of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Eric 26:16 I would also say, having tried to find a primary care doctor out there in the wild, you can’t.

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

GeriPal

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 23:11 Yeah.

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

GeriPal

It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Absolutely.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. John: Yeah.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? “You’ll not be the richest doctor, but you will be the most satisfied.” And of course those high rates of burnout and exhaustion are present across medical specialties. But she wrote this a counter. ” I did love that line.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. The challenge is not that people made decisions differently, and it was difficult, the challenge was the healthcare professionals who said, “This is not working for me. I think it’s all about how important. I need structure.”

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

GeriPal

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? And I pretty much present it as. Does a good history matter anymore?