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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?
Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? Don’t use that.
Janet is the author of the 4th edition of the book Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, along with co-authors Molly Collins and BR Daubman. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. . Janet: Beautiful.
We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.
However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. We go through a lot of his work, including some of the comics below. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.
You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. And I think part of the problem is for many people who are doctors, and I’m not talking to our palliative care geriatric audience, there is a sense of what it is to be a doctor is to fix things, is to save lives. Alex: A feeding tube. Sunita: There we go.
That, as you were saying, Eric, that bring me joy that I can pursue because they feed me, as well as whatever the reward system that I’m in. So when we were working on this book, intentionally interprofessional, we found such strong evidence that the team itself, simply being in a team, is protective. We should be writing.
And you feed the medicine in. Eric: I got another question then, feeding on that, thoughts on how we can promote leadership in palliative care social work. Eric: We actually did a podcast with Bridget Sumser who had a wonderful book, but we talked about the role, especially, and primary palliative care social work.
She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. Eric: And just a quick note, Sammy too on TikTok and on Instagram.
He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. I have written about it in the book. Alex: I love the story of this book, how it starts so locally and then moves on to the Kerala region and then moves to India. Tom: Okay, great.
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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