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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. That is not why I went into medicine. And, Emily, I got to ask you, you’re a palliative care doctor. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. Thank you.

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

GeriPal

I actually reach out sometimes to the primary care physician to say, like, hey, let’s talk about this. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. I feel like, especially in that age group, I do think more so sometimes of making substitutions rather than add on.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And I was an internal medicine resident. Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do.