GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Tasce: Yes. Taylor Swift.

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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. We discuss the moral distress that clinicians felt including, as one physician put it, a sense of your soul being ripped out.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 126

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. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations. Why do this?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Ruth McDermott-Levy, who is Professor in the College of Nursing at Villanova University and Co-Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment. And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on autism and vaccines. Health and Human Services’ look at rising autism rates in the U.S. All rights reserved.

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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.”

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. A research letter in JAMA Network Open reported that in 2015 and 2020, graduates of U.S. It's well documented that schools that are ranked highly by U.S.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Dubbed " the little federal agency that could ," AHRQ has accomplished this feat with a small fraction of the budgets of its higher-profile cousins, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

We start by talking with Robert Brody, an internist who recalls physicians helping patients die during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016.

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