GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. I guess the VA is federal though.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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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

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. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. Eric: Although pregabalin, right, more misuse of pregabalin out in the community. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Because people, they go to the hospital, then they revoke. Go ahead, Lauren.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Did I get that right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

Jerry: Well, I started in 2015 doing the Jewish body washing after the death. Jerry: Well, for me it’s about, I may have not chose this to be my community, but I chose the actions that led this to be my community. And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses. What do I want to do?”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. But that was separate from MAID.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals living in the community aged 65 and older, diagnosed with SMI, who received a first dementia diagnosis between January 2013 and December 2015. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Yet, late diagnoses and faster decline cannot be ruled out.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. As we age, our body’s capacity to adapt to things becomes a little more challenge. They can save a lot of money.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. Malaz: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. To be real.

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