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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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

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Because all of us understand how much the healthcare professions, and especially public health, just got whacked big time by a whole bunch of stuff, including COVID. Eric: … the acknowledgement more, do you want to specialize in geriatrics and be that your focus, or do you want to just have really good skills- Greg: Yes, absolutely.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

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It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. I was a psychobiology major, surprise, surprise, one of the first at Yale. Should I do neuro? But something with behavior.

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

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My voice is nothing special. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss. I rely on recorded music for my patients mostly, and I think that’s based on my singing. I was going to.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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

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Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. The challenge is, it’s easy to say, oh, yeah, talk to them in a few days, talk to them in a week, have them come back every other week, because the time constraints and the way our, our healthcare system is built, the people at the greatest risk are these more vulnerable people.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. It was my first concert without my parents. Emily 04:57 Yeah, it’s been about eight years.

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