Jerry Gurwitz

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180 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2023 last heard Nov 2023

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And they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic.

I'll end this story quickly, I promise.

And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic.

And she told me, you know what?

We don't have a geriatrician.

The medical school has no geriatricians.

And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner.

I said, do you feel like you need a geriatrician in a geriatric evaluation clinic?

do you think geriatricians are indispensable?

And she said, no, I don't think we really need one.

And that made me think really, really hard about the world, about our country, about our medical care system, and how it feels about geriatrics.

Not geriatrics, but the profession.

Realize I wrote about the profession of geriatric medicine.

I was not saying that there haven't been advances.

I was talking about our profession.

accurate.

So I'll just interject there.

I was among the first group of people who took the board certifying exam in 1988.

A lot of people took it over those few years subsequently.

I am 67 years old.

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