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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Julien: When I closed my eyes, I actually thought this is an actual recording of Chris Cornell.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery. You’ll have a feeding tube.