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

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. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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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. Shunichi Nakagawa’s Tweet that went viral on responding a patient request to drink ice water before death.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. 2015 Apr;22(4):441-6. Epub 2015 Mar 16. The most common injuries seen in these younger patients are growth plate fractures and ligamentous injuries. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2012 Jan 13;61(RR-1):1-20.

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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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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. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. Alex: Oh.

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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. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. 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. 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.

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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

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. 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. Pamela Wible soon discovered why. To be real. Think about it.

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