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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Eric: Going to some specifics, let’s go into vascular risk factors like hypertension. Should I do neuro? But something with behavior. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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

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Has the usual collection of chronic diseases, paroxysmal afib, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, adult diabetes, a little anemia, a little edema, a little mild cognitive impairment. It’s one of my old, old patients. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. But I think there’s less nuance and understanding in the general population or even in healthcare providers, honestly. Annals of Internal Medicine.