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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast!

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. But how about you! What do they do?

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. We know this though, in 1978, the world got together for public health, global nations got together and came out with [inaudible], which asked all member countries to partner with the community in healthcare delivery.

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When do we learn to treat our doctors properly?

Tiny Physician

She was a post-graduate in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (the branch which covers pregnancy and the female reproductive system) and she had won various accolades during her student and consultant days. Damage The plaintiff must be able to prove that he/she suffered harm because of the treatment which can be physical, financial, or mental.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

Years and years ago, the first few years as an attending physician, I was consulted to take care of a gentleman with metastatic esophageal cancer. For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. My approach to writing papers is really the patient cases that stick with me.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Michele: Thank you for having me. Michele: Yep. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: Yeah.

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