The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  References 1. Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment 52

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. These are families who are in distress. So we did this paper, Helen Kales, who now is at UC Davis, was the senior author, I think, back in 2018 in JAMA IM where we essentially looked at what happened to psychotropic prescribing.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically.

Consulting 120

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So I lived with a family there. Emily 32:08 So studies out of rush have been coming out about this, and Martha Claire Morris has been talking about the mind diet now for, I think, since, like, 2012. But if they have family support or they’re able to make some foods from scratch at home, that would be preferable.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Just in January, I remember having a conversation with a family that came in with a plan for end of life care.

IT 70

IT Community Government Management 70