Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
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That's exactly right.
And one of the things that, you know, and I think you alluded to this, Louise, one of the things that I fear from the current debate and discussion, there's a lot of lack of empathy and compassion going on here.
And I'd really hate to see a lot of this generalized to discussions about aging in general.
Because there's a lot of there's a lot of cases where
Where, you know, people who are dealing with difficulties can really have really excellent lives and do almost everything.
So, you know, that we don't want to generalize to like what's going on in a very unique situation to all of ageing.
No, no, I well you said the key I think you said the key word, Louise, is that one of the things I think that's often missed in this discussion, and you know, in part some of the rush to diagnosis is in fact ageist in itself, because it belies the enormous complexity and diversity and heterogeneity we could see.
in a various events.
So for example, like there are lots of people with gates that quote look Parkinsonian, you know, but you know, they have arthritis and they're just stiff and maybe they have a little bit of neuropathy.
And they're generally well functioning and what you see doesn't bode a negative prognosis.
And sometimes that Parkinsonian gate is Parkinson's.
The point though that
Sometimes, you know, clinically what you see is something that is a concern that demands evaluation, and that rushing to a diagnosis belies and disrespects the complexity and the needs of the person in front of you.
So that, you know, I just sort of seen so much guessing diagnosis, so much ridicule over Twitter.
So, you know, people have ridiculed, for example, the notion that a cold medicine can cause significant serious dysfunctioning in an otherwise older person.
And all of us as geriatricians have seen healthy people on Benadryl who've gotten incredibly dysfunctional from that.
At the same time,
You know, you wouldn't necessarily rush to say that's the answer.
The point is I see something concerning here, and the outcome of the evaluation can lead to a whole range of different conclusions, ranging from a one-time event we don't have to be concerned of something that's a harbinger of something else.
And often
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