GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The initial RCT published on physician coaching in JAMA in 2019 showing that coaching improves quality of life. I think in medicine, in particular and probably in all clinical specialties, there is this sense of a rival fallacy of, “When I finish residency, I’ll be happy. Eric: Vicky, anything you’d add to that?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Full disclosure, I talked with Ava Kofman a bunch while she was preparing that article, and I thought based on my professional experience working in hospice, things that I had seen, that she raised a lot of issues that I had personally encountered in my clinical experience. Eric: The three point difference in this, what?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. My interest in this paper and this topic goes back a long time and is based on my clinical experience as a hospice nurse, where I was taking care of what I felt like and what we’ve confirmed with research is about half of my patients.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” That is the first clinical use case. Eric: Yeah.

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