The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905.

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Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Team members and families eagerly await your intervention to halt the seizure and understand its underlying cause. A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.” ” Explaining this to families is paramount – sometimes your exam is a test.

Patients 52

Patients Screening Illness Physicals 52

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

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. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? We don’t need to check sugars all the time,” that also is a shock for patients and families.

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Therapists are so much more. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

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. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. There has to be more than this. Eric: Yeah. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115