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When I\u2019m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says \u201cPatient so-and-so is on X\u201d - and I have absolutely no idea what X is.\xa0 Modern subspecialist practice advances at such a remarkably rapid pace, it can be hard to keep up.

In this context, we\u2019re excited to hear from infectious disease experts and nephrologists about updates in the care of older adults.\xa0 Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I\u2019ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don\u2019t need that full course either).\xa0 Devika Nair and Rasheeda Hall talk about their JAGS article highlighting updates from nephrology in the care of older adults, including a link to this new eGFR calculator that does NOT include race.\xa0 We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I\u2019m not 100% sold that race should always be removed - if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example - at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed).

These articles are part of a new series called Clin-Star Corner, a new series in JAGS that reviews practice changing articles in the care of older adults.\xa0

And yeah, they made me sing a Miley Cyrus song\u2026(but not this hilarious parody about UTIs).

Enjoy!

-@AlexSmithMD