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. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor? Alex 10:41 No, they don’t.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Valentine — Incorporating patient and caregiver experiences into every phase of drug development has become increasingly prioritized during both development and review ( see, e.g. , previous coverage here ). The meeting will take place virtually on April 13, 2023, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET. By Larry J.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. I’ve had a patient in one room, they have stage four breast cancer. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. I love this song.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. Thanks to my son Kai for playing the guitar part in 5/4 with strange chords on Riverman by Nick Drake!

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Randy died February 26, 2023. Eric and I also reflect on the podcast Randy generously did with us on his experience living with and studying serious illness.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Journal of Patient Experience. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. I mean, it’s something that frustrates me on a daily basis, the number of times that I’ve had to argue with patients and even my own grandparents. Geriatrics. December 2020.

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Physicians News Digest

MAY 12, 2025

It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, a clinic near Boston that mails mifepristone and misoprostol pills to patients in states with abortion bans. It was unclear when those tests would come, and would it be against an individual provider or a practice or organization?”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question. All good ones.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

He directed the patients to seek local help. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. centers study rare vaccine reactions.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 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.

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