Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. I went to the University of Toronto and finished my Bachelor of Science there in 2013. Our team’s bond with each other supports a type of flexibility not seen in most other healthcare programs. All rights reserved.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

Green Practice News The Climate Issue June 2025 In This Issue : Once a year, Green Practice News focuses on the health consequences of global climate change. Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well!

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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 there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. And I’ve gotten really close to that family.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. Alex 06:05 And, oh, for that family, it was so meaningful. That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah. Eric 06:07 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. And my community and about my family and those kinds of things. Our consultation. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. I view that almost the complete opposite, as much more of a success of what I think one of my colleagues ophthalmologist that in Texas says mission transfer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So you can basically take otherwise similar clinical scenario, but you can make one of the actors and their family members Black and one of the actors and their family members white. They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member.

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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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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. The post RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. It’s all stemmed from a post that Josh wrote, I’ll caught from his Substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

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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 I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Lauren 19:01 Yeah, so in our second paper, we asked that exact question. What is your function? How are you functioning in your life after an event?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? Alex and I don’t make anything on it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The impact on families. But turns out that Jan1 and its family are all very similar. I have used Moderna or all of mine and in my family I do okay with the vaccine, which means that I probably am not mounting enough response. Year four, year four of COVID What are you hoping in 2025, Lona? The impact on. I think that was.

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