GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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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. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. She really should go to the hospital.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I have never had a patient come into the hospital and say, Doctor, regardless of what you do, do a little CPR that’ll make me feel better. I would say most of the time we offer CRT in the hospital. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. No one wants CPR, I’ve been a doctor as long as all of you put together.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. Because people, they go to the hospital, then they revoke. Lauren: Oh.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. I got one more lightning question, Janet, you’re at UCSF you’re caring for a patient in the hospital. Eric: And why Under Pressure. Eric: And we will have links to that.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And then the final category, the third category is what we called the dignity conserving repertoire, which really has to do with kind of the spiritual, and psychological landscape and makeup of that individual. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

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. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And we have some great guests.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. 2015, 2016. Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible. Malaz: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals.

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