GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? 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. So I would love to hear.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

It was also the time that in 2015, that people who were trans and famous really put being trans on the map at that time, too. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. And I remember I was actually featured at the time for, like, the Pride celebration up at Sinai.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

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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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. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. But that was separate from MAID.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s emotionally hard, but it’s also rewarding because I have such a meaningful life, especially when you see the family members of the patient are so grateful that you’re there. And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses. ” He was hardcore. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown.

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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 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

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. To be real. Think about it.

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