GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. So initially hospice grew as a non-profit, charity based, community based organization.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This 2022 draft guidance proposed that certain non-addictive medical products for pain or addiction treatment could be eligible for breakthrough designation, aligning with the Agency’s obligations under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. There’s the variation between the hospitals, feels like there’s cultural issues that play a role. So I just can’t keep going. Alex: That’s great. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These studies are important.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Of course, there’s psychedelics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I was also working there at an adult day center for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. We really don’t want seniors living at home alone when we know it’s dangerous for them and it’s going to make them end up in the hospital and go to a nursing home. Alaine: Yeah. Lee: Yeah. But, you know.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The governors (of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey and New York) thanked the President for his leadership in directing the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to reconsider the current scheduling of cannabis and HHS’ August 2023 rescheduling recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

“Gillette” Gillette-Pierce May 2, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the psychosocial and cultural considerations for providing healthcare to immigrant and refugee populations. A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But it feels the same in that I was on call a lot over the summer, and I took care of a lot of people behind those hospital walls. And when you look at the numbers, actually last year in 2023, even though we’re in a recovery phase, there were more than 75,000 deaths. And, you know, some people are still getting very sick.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. Write to your congressperson. Joe: Great to be here.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. “But I am grateful that I am part of a community that will not bow down.” Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Ali talks about the history of affirmative action, which started as a program for Whites , the importance of diversity in the healthcare workforce , the history of allyship and cross cultural collaboration, and his own efforts to provide opportunity and support for historically oppressed groups in his own community to obtain healthcare careers.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Harm to HIV, Vaccine Studies The NIH, with its nearly $48 billion annual budget, is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, awarding nearly 59,000 grants in the 2023 fiscal year. In November 2023, he told an anti-vaccine group, “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, ‘God bless you all. Thank you for public service.

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