GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. So you have the consultation.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Oh, my goodness.

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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 then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? How does integrative medicine fit in with this? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. So that’s great. It was very simple. Absolutely.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. So this, I think we had three or four consults. Doing home care? Hospice visits? Go ahead Josh.

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