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Alex Smith

San Francisco
As seen in: GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast (Podcast), Apple Podcasts, Medium, Lexology, The Break Through, FabFitFun, AmoMama, Richmond County Daily Journal, Christianity Magazine, Sooper Articles, Southwest Journal and
Co-founder: GeriPal Podcast, ePrognosis | Work: Professor UCSF palliative & geriatrics | Exec Editor JAGS | Personal: father, cyclist, backpacker, Warriors fan
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Why you should care about the shakeup at NIH: Sean Morrison, Ken Covinsky, Stacy Fischer

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By Alex Smith
| GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast (Podcast)
Emergency Podcast! Our guests Sean Morrison, Ken Covinsky, and Stacy Fischer believe that you should care deeply about the proposed shakeup at the National Institutes of Health. Major proposed rules changes at the Office of Management and Budget, would affect a huge range of government grants, from Headstart to Transportation to the National Science Foundation, as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the subject of today’s podcast. You dear listeners should all care.
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How We Limit Non-beneficial Life Sustaining Treatments: Jason Batten, Liz Dzeng, Teva Brender

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By Alex Smith
| GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is a natural follow up to our podcasts on Slow Codes and Unilateral DNR orders.Today we talk about a new study about how clinicians talk about potentially non-beneficial life-prolonging treatments, published in JAMA Network Open. Do they adhere to society guidelines, which allow as permissible approaches only shared decision-making and following institutional policy.
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Elder Mistreatment Prevention and Solutions: Carrie Rubenstein, Julia Hiner, & Tony Rosen

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By Alex Smith
| GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast (Podcast)
Today we revisit a topic we last discussed in a 2020 podcast with Laura Mosqueda: elder mistreatment. Our guests today are geriatricians Carrie Rubenstein and Julia Hiner, and Tony Rosen, an emergency medicine doctor. They talk about where we are now, in 2026, with elder mistreatment, including: Terminology: elder mistreatment vs. abuse and neglect The need to incorporate prevention and solutions into how we talk about mistreatment This is not rocket science.
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