Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. What makes your hospital medicine practice stand out from others in the healthcare industry? Our team’s bond with each other supports a type of flexibility not seen in most other healthcare programs.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

This is not highly scripted orchestral music, people, its Jazz. -S And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver. Alex 01:15 AHPM. So check that episode out. Check all the episodes out. It’s a terrific podcast, Tyler. Welcome, Tyle r.

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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. Jace, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 01:19 Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors.

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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. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Can you guys do that one?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Alex: We’ll take any Warriors we can get.

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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. At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. This will give people false hope!

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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. Think vitamins. Think chemo.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We’re going to define what that is and how it applies to the work that we do. But before we go into that, Amber, I think you got a song request for Alex. Amber: I do. Being a palliative care physician, the one that came immediately to mind was Knocking on Heaven’s Door. You know what? So I just can’t keep going. I love this song.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter? Fernanda 01:16 I do have a song request.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? Garfunkel says Simon was writing about Garfunklels friend and college roomate Sandy, who was blind. Whos got the right of it? Na 01:01 Yes, I requested the song. We’ll see.

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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. Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do you have with us today? Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

-Alex Smith Additional links mentioned by Tsai-Chin Cho: – Wealth shocks and mortality in the US – Change in marital status as a risk for wealth shock ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 W elcome to the GeriPal p odcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Is it you, Rebecca?

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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 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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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. When Teva Brender and Brian Block first approached me about writing a thought piece about this idea, my initial response was, Hell no. You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves? Then goes into the session.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome back Lona Mody, who is a geriatrician, translational infectious disease researcher, and professor at the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Va. Lona, welcome back to GeriPal. Lona 00:21 It’s great to be here. Peter, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Peter 00:36 A pleasure to be on Alex and Eric.

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