GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. If they’re a beginning fellow, that’s a very different coaching situation than coaching the chief medical officer or the president of a medical center.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

7 The same degree of focus has not been paid to misuse of other prescription medications which also have high abuse potential among youth, including medications such as prescription stimulants, tranquilizers, and sedatives. misuse of prescription medications). 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. Alex, who is gonna be answering that question? Vicki 02:10 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. These were general medical nurses or social workers. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. It’s not a controlled substance medication. Eric: So I heard gabapentin is the 10th most commonly prescribed medication in the US. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: Are these generic?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. It wasn’t sort of a strategy to be like, oh, I really want to do a clinical leadership role.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Ann Henshaw is an occupational therapist who works clinically at Georgetown and teaches at GW. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ann: Thank you. Very excited to be here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. And he’s a professional Uber driver for his daughter’s softball games. Hey, it’s National POLST Collaborative now.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

First we have Emily Largent who is a bioethicist in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Emily. It wasn’t just to get healthcare workers to stay on the job, it was to thank them or recognize their service. Emily: I do.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Ashwin 18:08 These are things that we often see from a clinical standpoint.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. Alex 00:40 We’re delighted to welcome Alexis Drutchas, who is a palliative care doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and co founder, also of the Palliative Story Exchange.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And we had a greater decrease in symptom intensity at day seven versus the usual care group by both a clinically meaningful and a statistically significant difference. But again, hindsight’s 2020 probably wasn’t the best measure to look the other one we tested in an exploratory way was feeling heard and understood.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ruth: Right. Ruth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. And then, the system responds in turn.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For an ever deeper dive into the subject of negotiation and dispute resolution, check out the following links (and for any caregivers interested in participating in the randomized clinical trial of the NegotiAge training, feel free email the NegotiAge Research Team at negotiage@northwestern.edu ): . December 2020. Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. I think that in almost every clinical encounter, we struggle with what’s ours and what’s someone else’s? And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. Annals of Int Med. Bruce: Sure.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Alex 20:58 Farah, appreciate the medicine metaphor for our clinical audience. You know, I’m thinking about, like, you know, I think, Eric, you served on our medical school admissions committee once. I took my kids in 2019, 2020. So it’s 2020. And the uprooting of DEI is an act of violence. Well played.

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