GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. I knew I wanted to do palliative medicine pretty early Even in medical school. 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.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. These symptoms require immediate medical attention. This is a medical emergency where you should call 911.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Nancy 03:05 And just not to do any sort of spoiler alert here, but 2025 is their last time doing this session at AGS. You have to see about 2025 whenever that comes up, but we’ll see maybe. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. Of course. We’ll see. And very frail.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast. Janet 00:26 Thank you so much.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 71

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 76

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And so this term was developed by our group to capture either non traditional therapies or really conventional medical therapies that patients may be pursuing with little hope of reaching a goal of care and significant risk. For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 76

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 62

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

So what I remember is, is multiple hospitals and they did EEG during CPR during a cardiac arrest. Did you have a different medication? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. They also, like, I think, showed an image or played something by like audio to see if anybody Remembered it during eg.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 92

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis. I have no idea what that is. Lauren 12:34 Yeah.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 92

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship. Doing home care? Hospice visits? Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 78

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:23 And we’re delighted to welcome Peter Chin-Hong, who is an infectious disease physician and medical educator, professor at UCSF and associate dean for regional campuses. But it feels the same in that I was on call a lot over the summer, and I took care of a lot of people behind those hospital walls. Eric 19:21 So, Q.

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Vaccination IT Patient-Centered Patients 126

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. 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.

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