GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. On the one hand, I don’t think interprofessional teamwork needs to be scarring. On the other hand, though it goes against my middle-child “can’t we all get along” nature, disagreement is a key aspect of high functioning teams. Alex 02:38 Love it.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Pearls Black and Indigenous birthing people are 3-13 times more likely to die in childbirth, with the rate varying by location and level of investment in communities. The exact statistics vary by location and by the overall level of investment in services such as childcare and parental leave within each community. and a professor.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No No it’s not just the French version of Aducanumab). . In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!)

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The hot sauces progressed from mild to extreme (and I mean extreme) heat. Can I just say…it works? Being asked a question with your mouth on fire, sweat streaming down your face, feeling the most awake and terrified you have ever been in your life, forces you to give an unadorned answer, straight from the heart. Lynn: Okay. Anne: GeriPal edition.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. In fact, as Lauren Hunt found , the average likelihood that a person will be disenrolled from one hospice vs. another is two. AlexSmithMD.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. Before we go into this topic, who has a song request for Alex? It was Remember Me. Here we go.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? They got feedback. So did it matter?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. But before we do, I think somebody has a song request for Alex. Alex: Can’t tell…maybe a little bit.

Illness 110

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Increased quality of patient-provider communication, including offering behavioral counseling when needed, may avert unnecessary prescriptions. Parents and other family members who are prescribed these medications should be encouraged to take more responsibility to keep them locked and out of the hands of youth and young adults.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. It is the slippery slope made real.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. Health Survey for England 2016: Prescribed Medicines.; By Lisanne Andra Gitsels and Elena Kulinskaya Reference: Gitsels LA , Bakbergenuly I , Steel N , et al, Do statins reduce mortality in older people?

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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. 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. You got it.

Family 106

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

How has the history of redlining and the federal tax subsidy of wealthy (mostly white) people in the form of a mortgage interest deduction contributed to racial inequalities in homelessness? What can we do about it? What are the highest yield interventions and policy changes? What should we call it – homeless or unhoused? Eric: I love 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.” Malaz: I love it.

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