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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

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This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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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. . AlexSmithMD .

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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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. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa. Annals of Internal Medicine. Like, does that indirect? Is that also a trauma?

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And I was an internal medicine resident. And that over time, if you look at people who have this transformation of acute into chronic pain, the transformation is not linked to the severity of your initial illness or your severe initial injury.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Jenny, welcome back to GeriPal. Jenny 01:27 Thanks. Good to be here.