Barry Baines
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 3 Apr
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And one of the greatest gifts that you can leave for your family is to do some pre-planning about your funeral. because then you have that say beforehand. And I don't mean just about how the service is going to be, because that's also very important. But understanding the options that are available from a cost perspective, that's extremely important.
And being aware of those kind of things and having those conversations is very helpful. Again, obviously, if you're in hospice, Those things are addressed up front. And so, you know, expected, those things are expected. But there are, you know, most people don't go into hospice, so they don't have, you know, that, you know, that ability to have those conversations.
So it's kind of thinking about the pre-planning aspect. And also in the whole area of funerals, there's, you know, not surprisingly, green funerals. And I think Sheridan was taught, I forget if it was Sheridan or Maddie about the service, I think it was Sheridan, the service with the tree and the ashes and things like that.
And more and more people are opting for green funerals that, again, you know, for further, you know, reading and research. But these other options have come up. And the fact that cremation has become much more common than regular, you know, what I call standard burials. And most of that is because of the cost.
And the other last piece is that I know the whole funeral industry has started to pivot around the importance of pre-funeral planning to really help the family to meet the needs so that it's not under pressure where, you know, I lost my loved one, I need to bury them.
And then you're, you know, the pressure to make all these decisions and you're already not making your best judgments because you're grieving. And so the idea of you can get sort of get over the denial part that we are, that we all are going to die at some point. And to be thinking more about how to make that process a little bit more helpful and less stressful for everybody.
That's the other thing is when you do that pre-planning, it takes a big load off the survivors. And so that's my plea is to be thinking about having those conversations. Yeah.
Barry, Dr. Barry. Yeah. So, you know, trying to go down this path, I'm pretty sure we're going to go down a few paths here and talking about arthritis and and rheumatology and all those kind of things. Paul, as you were talking about this, it seems like the treatments that have been available have markedly changed over, you know, the past 20 to 30 years. I mean, really, you know, very remarkably.
And with most arthritis conditions, usually pain and swelling, you know, seem to be very common symptoms. And so, you know, people go to, you know, to treat the pain so they can, you know, then do things. But at a higher level, can you just give us an overview of what you've seen in rheumatology in the treatment of these diseases over the past 20 years?
It seems like every time I watch the commercials on, you know, every time I watch TV, There are all these commercials about all these new immunologic agents that are very hard to pronounce, so they have to come up with catchy names from a brand perspective.
I wonder if you could just talk about that from the perch of a rheumatologist and changes that you've seen and how that relates to us as consumers or just as people.
Sorry to interrupt you, Barry. Yeah, go ahead, Barry. Now, so I'm going to stick my neck out a little bit here. because of what you were talking about with that other study. Um, one of the things over the past, you know, decades is that, uh, we spend more and more time sitting in front of the screen, the computer.
Um, and so I'm just when I know that, you know, hand things as well from, you know, keyboarding and stuff like that. So I'm just wondering, you know, how, uh, what, what we do in our daily activities, how that has, uh, brought up or impacted the prevalence of some of these things.
And then my sort of a second part of the question that goes beyond that, but that is there are things that we can do that don't have to be medication. There are a lot of lifestyle things that really can make a big difference in its impact on arthritis, certainly osteoarthritis, and I would imagine as well. rheumatoid arthritis.
But I was just wondering if you could touch on how this has really changed what some of the arthritis conditions that we're seeing as an impact from our daily activities.
Barry. You know, my biggest takeaway, and this is for our listeners out there, oftentimes we have like my knee hurts and you go in to see the doctor for that. But also, you know, my wrist hurts and my ankle hurts sometimes, things like that. What I'm coming away with is that earlier recognition can have a tremendous impact on long-term disability, all those kinds of things.
And so my takeaway is if you have, you go to the doctor and you have a joint that aches, be proactive and say, also, by the way, you know, you need to know that my, you know, I have other joints that hurt, but not as much as my knee.
Because that's going to automatically raise yellow flags so that this is more than just, oh, it's just arthritis and you need to take some ibuprofen, things like that. So that's a big takeaway for me. I think people tend to focus, and doctors as well, and nurse practitioners, on presenting symptoms.
And we need to make sure that even as patients, that when we come in, try and expand the view a little bit, because that could have a great impact on... you know, on results over long term. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Barry. Yeah. So I sort of have a two part question or question and comment. So when I was as a family physician, when I was in practice, I don't.
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