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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? And in that, they found it significantly improved ADL function and life space. So I got to help create one of the first geriatric orthopedic fellowships. Eric: Yeah.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So I went in Mike’s place for a couple times, and I think the first one was in 2007, and I just remember year after year, ADGAP always talked about, “Oh, the numbers are so bad. I started going AAP meetings because geriatric fellowship programs directors used to go there. Oh, woe is us. Everything is so bad.”