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 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. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. What’s in a story?

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Our role as providers is to identify the patients who have a life-threatening etiology to their syncope. History and physical examination are critical components to any emergency department evaluation but are especially helpful in syncope patients. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, 2015.

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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 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. Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. So it coincided with that. Eric 05:59 Thank you.

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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

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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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity.

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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

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.” I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Dr. Pamela Wible soon discovered why. To be real.

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