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. There really was very little.

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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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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

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. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended? Yael 30:29 Exactly.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

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? Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. Eric 10:55 So one serious illness. Our consultation.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

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. It was very simple. Now it was a pragmatic trial.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. And is it at all individualized to the patient? It’s a lot.

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