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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

Pallimed

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. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word! We have just entered our teenage years.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Transcript.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

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. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Yep, for geriatrics? Joel: Talk about it. Joel: Yeah.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. At American Geriatric Society in Orlando, got up during Amy Kelly’s talk, which was about dementia and said, “My mother cannot get hospice care because no hospice will take a chance on her.

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

High Peaks Hospice

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. Curt Gedney, and our Assistant Medical Director, Dr. Noelle Stevens!

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Addressing The Range of Patient Beliefs About COVID-19

Pallimed

In winter 2008 after President Obama was first elected, I saw a woman in clinic who said she was disappointed by the election result. 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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