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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

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Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2008; 26: 5988-5993. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2008; 300 (14): 1665-73. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. Prognosis communication in serious illness: Perceptions of older patients, caregivers, and clinicians. 2003; 51 (10): 1398-1403. Soc Sci Med.

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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. A message can be muddled when telling a large audience to access HPM physicians yet there are none in their area.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008; 300 (14): 1665-1673. J Clin Oncol. 2010; (29): 4457-4464. Kris A, Cherlin E, Prigerson H, et al. Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month follow-up study. 2006; 14 (3): 264-269. Teno J, Clarridge B, Casey V, et al. 2004; 291 (1): 88-93. J Clin Oncol.

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How Hospice Supports Families

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In: Huria A, Balducci L, editors: Geriatric Oncology: Treatment, Assessment, and Management. 2008 Nov;98(11):2092-8. Ferrell B, Mazanec P. Family Caregivers. New York: Springer 2009: 135-155. Elwert F, Christakis NA. The effect of widowhood on mortality by the causes of death of both spouses. American Journal of Public Health.

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High Peaks Hospice celebrates National Doctors Day with a Spotlight on our Medical Director

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He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college.

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Addressing The Range of Patient Beliefs About COVID-19

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In winter 2008 after President Obama was first elected, I saw a woman in clinic who said she was disappointed by the election result. I get where you’re coming from, trust me. :) Dr. Lyle Fettig is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.

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