Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Patients within general practices in England who are included in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) with linkage to PINCER implementation dates. Regression accounted for clustering within practices, repeated measures over time, and differing intervention start dates.

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General Practice Primary Care Clinical Practice Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. They’re people, and what makes us people if not our life’s stories?

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So I would love to hear. Heather: Sure.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Ann Henshaw is an occupational therapist who works clinically at Georgetown and teaches at GW. Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Ann Henshaw who brought this podcast idea to us.

Hospital 132

Hospital Patient-Centered Patients IT 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. Liz: Well, some aspects of this paper around clinical momentum and things around defaults and that sort of thing. Liz: I do, indeed. Proud Mary.

Hospital 125

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. AlexSmithMD. Transcript. Melissa: Sure.

Family 106

Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

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.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

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.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? The folks that we were seeing either in clinic or inpatient, were probably a lot sicker than the ones that we’re seeing now.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

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.

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

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.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

AHRQ survived that episode, only to be zeroed out by the House once again in 2015, when the danger to the agency's survival seemed real enough that former Senate majority leader Bill Frist and former CMS director Gail Wilensky both penned op-eds urging their Republican colleagues to reconsider - which they eventually did.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Illness 52

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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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246