GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song?

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And maybe, just maybe, Eric and I will be reinstated and return as hosts next week -Alex Smith ** This podcast is not CME eligible. So this is something. This is the plenary to attend.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? We talk about: What is a practical geriatric assessment and how can busy oncologists actually do one? Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. J Am Geriatr Soc.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. 2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. All decisions are made in advance, the question that we are debating is how far in advance and what to call it. Completion of advance directives and billing codes for advance care planning as quality metrics. Among other topics.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj’s reflections on the state of palliative care in the US. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently.

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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. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. Alex: (Singing).

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. However, she found herself in trouble when one of her patients, whom she treated at her hospital, died due to postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding from the birth canal after delivery).

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Rhymes with mullet (On the podcast we debate using the French pronunciation, though it sounds the same as the French word for chicken). We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? Key ingredients are both potentially unsafe and low evidence.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. He taught us a little about the different flowers and plants, and along the way a little about why he does what he does. One story that Allan told perfectly sums this up. We have pictures of this online on our GeriPal website.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As BJ MIller writes in the foreword, “ May this book be a portal — a way for us to move beyond the unwise territory of trying to ‘do it right’ and into the transcendent terrain of noticing what we can notice, loving who we love, and letting death — like life –surprise us with its ineffable beauty. I got questions.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Is 4% meaningful? I think it’s you, Bob.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Despite all of these publications, I’m still left at a loss of what to think about it all. What is it?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolf f , who is a health services researcher and gerontologist and professor at Johns Hopkins. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jennifer 00:28 It’s great to be here. But before we dive into the study and the implications it has for the practice that we do, I believe someone has a song request.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life. As Mary Oliver tells us In Blackwater Woods , and I’m paraphrasing here, we must to hold it to our bones, knowing our lives depend on it, and when the time comes, to let it go. To let it go. . Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness.

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