GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. and consulting for Papa Health.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And not just statistically significant, but clinically meaningful. Eric: How about you, David? Why this particular population? So, it was super exciting.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta. Charlotta: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. So that part we know and I.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. Alex 00:33 Our next guest is Margaret Ross, who’s a clinical psychologist and researcher at St. And when that article went to print, it just went ballistic.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. NCP guideline, standard consultation. Have to see.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. The best ideas for research come from my clinical experience. Alex: Right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? Why did you even decide to write this article?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? The clinical trials and the this and that. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old. They’re doing. They’re doing. They know which.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. Liz: Well, some aspects of this paper around clinical momentum and things around defaults and that sort of thing. Liz: I do, indeed. Proud Mary.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. John: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Abby.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. And he writes about his experience living with cancer at billgardner.substack.com.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. – @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. There’s something magical that happens in small group storytelling. Eric 04:44 Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. All of this is.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” Let me ask you a question. And they suck at it for a lot of reasons.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. 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. Is that right Josh?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And I chose one in particular experience to write about, a trans woman who I call Jamie in the piece, who I had known prior to the pandemic who I was treating as a palliative care consultant for her cancer related pain. The primary loss almost always sets into motion a further cascade of social and emotional consequences. She was homeless.

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GeriPal

JULY 17, 2025

The key is that looking inwards to understanding our own unique relationship with mortality can deepen our ability to authentically accompany the experiences of our patients. Articles : Emanuel LL, Solomon S, Chochinov HM, et al. In a clinical setting, yeah. Perhaps it is something else entirely. The Denial of Death.

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