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

GeriPal

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 01:23 Yeah.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Here are some key examples of how permanent healthcare staffing solutions miss the mark: Lack of Medical Staffing Agility Healthcare facilities face significant challenges in maintaining optimal staffing levels due to the unpredictable nature of patient volumes. Why leverage a locum tenens medical staffing network?

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

So, every single [inaudible 00:05:10] there is per the table, in an equianalgesic relationship to one another. And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. Is that the way the tables are structured? That’s one aspect of it. Landmark study.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. It flows very well. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101
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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. by Kearney. I promise its short.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. And the other thing is that verbatim question for research, that’s fine, but that might not be the way to enter into a spiritual relationship with a patient with that kind of question.

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

GeriPal

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. When I spoke to physicians who had been practicing back then, it seemed that the sort of modern cohort of medical students and residents and young physicians were facing a different set of challenges, a unique set of challeng challenges.

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