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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

– Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. He’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, and he’s one of my former research mentees, and he’s very interested in medical ethics and decision making in the ICU. I was a medical and psychiatric resident between 1977 and 1982. AlexSmithMD . Transcript.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah. Alex: Oh, good. Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. I’ve known you since we did PSAP together, I think, back in 2007 ish. You said, how was Kai doing?

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. I have no idea what that is.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. People with covid vaccine injuries, however, are stuck in a kind of limbo, often without clear medical options. The post What RFK Jr.