Eric Widera, MD
Professor of #Medicine @UCSF focused on #Geriatrics, #Hospice, #Palliative care, and #meded. Co-creator of https://eprognosis.ucsf.edu. Podcasts at http://geripal.org 🇺🇦
Publications: profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.widera
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- Reposted by Eric Widera, MDThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
- Heartbreaking
- Reposted by Eric Widera, MDAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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- Improve your patient care in older adults by learning with @acpimphysicians.bsky.social full-day #Geriatrics and #Palliative Medicine course intensive on Wednesday, April 15 in San Francisco! Learn more here - annualmeeting.acponline.org/educational-...
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- Is faking CPR always wrong? We discuss the defense of the slow code in this weeks podcast. #medsky #bioethics
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- The vibe at european soccer games always impresses me (took this pic in Stockholm at the Svenska Cupen)
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- Don’t fear the reaper? On today’s podcast we talk about death anxiety and how to manage it (or at least live with it). #palliativecare #geriatrics #medicine #nursing #hospice geripal.org/death-anxiet...
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- Public Service Announcement: Never fly United into or out of Newark airport unless you like to sit on a runway for hours on end (or get diverted to another airport for ground stops).
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- Dying people often experience a burst of lucidity. How do we best care for these patients & families? Full episode here - geripal.org/lucid-episod... #hospice #palliativecare #medsky
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- What every doctor and nurse should know about radiation oncology when caring for individuals with serious illness. #medsky geripal.org/what-you-sho...
- The wildlife of San Francisco
- A great editorial on why FDA should expand approval for all formulations of buprenorphine to treat cancer pain. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- A big beautiful city by the bay
- A nice day at the park
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- Learned something new today - the Determinants of Malnutrition in Aged Persons (DoMAP) Model, showing potential determinants of malnutrition in older adults. Dark green is central etiologic mechanisms, then it goes farther out for more indirect mechanisms. #medsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- How I felt after a long week of consults
- Terminal lucidity & paradoxical lucidity seen with advance dementia are brief moments in where individuals suddenly regain clarity, communicate, and reconnect in ways thought to be lost. On today’s GeriPal episode, we do a deep dive on these experiences. #medsky
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- A must watch grand rounds by Tasha Faruqui, a pediatrician & mother, in which she talks about her experience caring for her daughter, Soraya, a child with complex medical needs now enrolled in hospice care. #medsky #hospice #palliativecare youtu.be/UXtw5vBcWnE?...
- Making the case for the importance of music as medicine. #medsky geripal.org/music-as-med...
- Top 10 Tips #Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Supporting Coping in Serious Illness. # 6 is key - patient’s coping is not “good” or “bad”; instead, ask how it serves or hinders a patient in a given time and situation. #medsky #palliativecare www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....
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- Well said. Not including older adults in research studies about diseases that primarily affect older adults is just ageism, pure and simple. slate.com/technology/2...
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