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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

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But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then. Alex: A feeding tube. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Jacky: Thank you.

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

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

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Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. In the first podcast, we talked with Guy Micco and Marilyn MacEntyre about poetry and aging. Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Institute for Poetic Medicine.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. You’ll have a feeding tube. Yep, for geriatrics? Alex: But I’m talking about-. Joel: Talk about it.