GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. And he is also a clinical audiologist, which is going to be key for this podcast. I’m guessing not. Transcript.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

We discuss the importance of viewing individuals with dementia from a lens of resilience, the importance of creative engagement ( as noted in Anne and Susan’s wonderful article on this subject) , the role of collaborative care, and what we can do to improve inclusivity for individuals with dementia in our community and health care systems.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. It maxes out.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. So, how do you choose the best primary care provider in Michigan?

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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. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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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. With their regular providers? And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A more Western perspective on health care emphasizes the role of physicians and health care providers and marginalizes the role and contributions of doulas and midwives. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis. And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. But it does kind of provide that caution, it kind of slows things down to make sure you’re really paying attention. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

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. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions. Eric 14:23 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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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

MAY 22, 2025

And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. Eric 11:13 And, Tyler, that’s why I loved your article at J Gym on bringing music and benefits to patients at the bedside. Relationships are usually more complicated.

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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. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. Should you stop at “no?”

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

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. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? Tell me about your illness.

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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. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Tell me about your illness.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? What drove you to write that article on this important trip to Seattle? And my article is about when I was a mid to junior faculty member trying to build this career.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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 ). Providers are not providers that people want answers and determinations and decisions.

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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. I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

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

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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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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. Alex 00:31 And we’re delighted to welcome Fernanda Bellolio, who is an emergency medicine physician and professor of emergency medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Corita 00:30 Thank you.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

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.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. She helped them do something about it.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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. ” Sunita: Honestly, I’d be happy to provide the vocals. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

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. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. We’re going to be linking to two important JAGS articles that our guests wrote just recently in JAGS. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here. Kate 01:09 Yeah.

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