GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? Would you have that same pessimism that you had then today about these predictive algorithms and their ability to transform healthcare? AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare. And the first one was with Zeke Emanuel. I’m connecting. This is GPT-4.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. This 2024 is the year of AI. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria. English or spanish speakers.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. Eric 06:26 Great.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio. Eric: Yeah.

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