GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. And then the second one in 2015. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. Severe sepsis is a syndrome marked by a severe infection that results in one organ failure. Alex: What happens when people survive? It’s not just about the ICU.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. These are families who are in distress. I understand that it can be a hard place clinically. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing. Absolutely clinicians are trying to do the right thing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. And he writes about his experience living with cancer at billgardner.substack.com.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Drawing from her experience running a physician suicide helpline , she speaks candidly about the emotional toll of assembly-line medicine , the link between overwork and doctor suicide , and the revolutionary joy of reclaiming your career by launching your own ideal clinic. I was in a big-box clinic. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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