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

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. It feels somewhat random in some ways.

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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

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? I understand that it can be a hard place clinically. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Review.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. I think that there are some really great for-profit hospices out there that are actually able to provide more services and more open access for patients. Basically, there’s a lot of variation amongst hospice providers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” What about ambivalence on the part of the provider?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship. Bry: Yeah, Eric.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Farah provides clear examples from the Biden administration, in which having the most diverse cabinet in history was critical to building bridges, empathy, and inspiring others to feel included. Alex 20:58 Farah, appreciate the medicine metaphor for our clinical audience. I took my kids in 2019, 2020. Well played.

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