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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin. Tell me about your illness. Oh my gosh.

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

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Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin. Tell me about your illness. Oh my gosh.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. So there’s a lot of factors that contribute beyond the biology, if you will. You can’t even.

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