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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 01:23 Yeah.

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

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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. But I want to go back in time now.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

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So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

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

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But everybody might, when I was a chaplain educator, I taught medical students as summer chaplain interns because everyone needs to know how to be able to recognize spiritual distress. Some more assessment also potentially some interventional around total pain, including spiritual suffering that actually may worsen physical pain.

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Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco

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Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so. And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing. Have you ever done that?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And I was. I bought into that.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. We’re going to be talking about pain and your book.