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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 02:37 Feeding the beast, Matthew, feeding the beast [laughing] Alex 02:41 All right, here’s a little bit. And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

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? You may end up there indefinitely. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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. Somebody had a hyperglycemic event, so we’re going to check daily, three times a day, blood sugar sugars on everybody. We should be writing. We should be doing this.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. We’re giving some biologic information if they want it. We’re reevaluating how that all impacts them. I know, man, I just screwed up. Alex: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

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. Eric: What do you think attracted you to it? When I was about nine-years-old, they gave me a book of poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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