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The Clinical Problem Solvers
APRIL 24, 2025
Additionally, he consults with federal agencies on mental health system design and practices. Dr. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients. 2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905. Academically, he has won multiple awards for research on structural violence, health equity, and mental health. Benton TD.
GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.
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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. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? How high is too high?
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. I was coaching someone this morning, who really wanted to know, what does your clinic template look like, and how do you respond to patient messages?
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. But watch out! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.
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. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.
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. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.
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