GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I finished my fellowship in ’88. Why did you go into it?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

I think they may not be likely to provide much benefit, but because they’re water soluble and you just pee it out, they’re probably not causing much harm, except for potentially financial harm if they’re very costly. It’s just that he was foregoing things that we think would have provided him more benefit.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. This is not why I went into emergency medicine. That’s not news to us.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And then I’d also imagine from a quality of life perspective, like a one time visit by a palliative care provider, I can’t imagine it really significantly improving quality of life unless there was robust like the symptom.

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MAY 29, 2025

This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. And there’s like the emphasis on the relational component and what that means in terms of the relationship between the caregiver and the patient and the person. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Like, you’re really feeling yourself today.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? I mean, you know, we’re trying to both honor what, what the surrogate believes is the, the patient’s preference, which we do all the time with all kinds of other medical interventions and provide comfort in a humane way.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And health shocks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. And I think these conversations, and I mean that in a way that these conversations are designed to not just be had in isolation between a primary care provider and a patient.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Alex 00:28 It’s a hobby.

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