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APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. So that this is not something that might affect the individual clinician patient decision.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). And this happened to me while I was in service a couple of weeks ago.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

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MARCH 24, 2022

So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process. So every transition into the hospital, every transition out of the hospital. It created a lot of challenges.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. Lynn 37:39 I was in the hospital. But it really does need some individualizing. Eric 37:27 And then all of a sudden, like, we started doing all video visits. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020? Joe 41:30 Yeah.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We got admitted to the hospital, our inpatient palliative team developed their skill set because they had a place to send patients when they got discharged. For those individuals, how do you think about that? I think it is just about any clinician.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

So writing a eulogy or seeing that individual, we had an open casket, which was both very hard, but also, I would say, somewhat cathartic to actually do these rituals and participate in these rituals. It just depends on the family preference on the individuals involved. But there was something about the rituals that accompanied death.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. They’ve been in the hospital twice in the last six weeks.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

I was also working there at an adult day center for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. Is it getting to a doctor’s appointment? How would you think about each individual of those three steps? Tell me, Alaine, how’d you get interested in this? Alaine: Yeah. What would that look like?

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

And really they’re trying to understand what reasonable quality of life can this person expect to achieve and just agonizing over those decisions, over every individual decision. That makes us lots of money for our hospital, but none of them want to be in the ICU and a respirator because we’re not making as much money off of that.

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JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.

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