The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. Because sustainable healthcare isn’t optional—it’s essential. Adaptation Gap Report (2023).

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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

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. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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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. So medication adjustments.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. ” BJ: Well, I fall back on using physiology in the sort of medical sense. laughter] Eric: And part of that is this idea of, in hospice, sometimes we just try to medicate suffering away. We medicate that away. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. Someone is 90 mild stage dementia, but they’re only impaired in their managing of a checkbook, that person still could receive this medication. I want you to stop my AFib medication, my anticoagulation and start me on this drug. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. those experiencing homelessness).

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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. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . Janet Abrahm is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care. Janet: You have to do an education beforehand. And yes, this would be a great one for CME. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. But one of the things I worry about, when we really know medically where this case is going and we find, how many times has this happened?

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We thought that it would be educational and entertaining to list the Top Ten reasons presented in letters from three high profile stakeholder groups to Attorney General Merrick Garland and/or DEA Administrator Anne Milgram on how to handle the scheduling recommendation. Letter to U.S. In other words, no rescheduling.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. But that’s something that we never get taught in medical school, and it’s not a bad thing to negotiate with somebody. But, you know.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. It was like talking about smoking cessation.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. There was no further education, role play, vital talky stuff, I want to learn more, so here are some? So somebody had to write something down in the medical record that talked about goals of care, and there was no template, there was no form that you filled out for this. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. Margot: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. Bruce: That would definitely be considered a macroaggression in 2023. And it went on for a while.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:23 And we’re delighted to welcome Peter Chin-Hong, who is an infectious disease physician and medical educator, professor at UCSF and associate dean for regional campuses. 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.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Senator Durbins letter references a January 2023 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that more than two-thirds of drugs advertised on television were considered to have low therapeutic value.

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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. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done?

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

I think it was the 2023 World Series where Dusty Baker faced off as the manager of the Houston Astros against David Roberts. You know, I’m thinking about, like, you know, I think, Eric, you served on our medical school admissions committee once. It was, I think it wasn’t the last World Series. For advocacy within that?

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