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JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. First, Nisha, a pain and palliative care pharmacist, starts us off with discussing the pharmacology of gabapentin and pregabalin, including common myths like they work on the GABA system (which is weird given the name of the drug). It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics.

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