GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Same thing with kind of medication management. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. Eric: Oh, that’s fabulous.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Does that sound about right? I don’t look.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Susan 01:36 To reflect continuing medical management versus starting dialysis, which is what Maria’s wonderful paper goes through.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Alex: That one’s easy.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Families 112

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. Four percent.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. But the present is not because I, as an individual healthcare professional, am not enough.

IT 110

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I typically try to use medications like baclofen, and very small doses of gabapentin.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It’s amazing how often when we’re taking care of somebody in the hospital, if you have Say, you know, a family member who is not showing up for visits with the medical team or who is. It’s not in the capacities of what we can do medically. Is so fiercely pushing back on discussions about how sick somebody is.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. When I say really strong evidence, it’s small to moderate effect sizes, but at times equally as effective as medications.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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.” There was an assessment that was focused on four spiritual domains.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And it’s something that we see a lot with many of the medications we use in cancer. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The post RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

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?

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. This 2024 is the year of AI. And it’s a lot easier to calculate prognosis likely from, you know, the labs and the medical record than it is to, like, get patients to stomp onto a survey about quality of life. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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? It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. When I was a medical student, I actually worked with Elizabeth in her research group at OHSU.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Patient-Centered 128

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 128

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson have no relationships to disclose. Alex 03:54 Very generous.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

That also speaks to a lot of the particular family relationships and, of course, in that case, allegations of mistreatment along racial lines and so forth. There’s disagreement within, some medical associations are against this. These kinds of questions are coming up for us all the time with advances in medical technology.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? We are delighted to welcome back returning guest Jenny Blumenthal-Barb y , who’s a philosopher and bioethicist and associate director of the center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Baylor College of Medicine. Can we do better? Alex 01:13 We ve got a full house.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108