Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. F (38°C) is generally regarded as indicative of illness. Managing and treating an illness involves several steps.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Transcript.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Eric: So, before we jump into the topic of substance use disorder in aging and serious illness, I think someone has a song request. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. 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? Transcript.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

I cannot tell you the number of times that I have seen a patient and discovered additional diagnoses after they had been to urgent care. A primary care doctor knows your entire health history, so we may see your illness/problem in a different light. Read My Latest News!

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This all came out from JAGS just published their first Clin-STAR corner, which is, and we’ll talk about what that is, but it’s a series of articles bringing in specialists to talk about updates in the last couple years within their field. So this point led us to select these articles. One of your articles addresses that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Ira: I like the article. Thank you, Anne.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. What do we do with that? This was a tremendous undertaking.

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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. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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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.” And so really thinking about all the ways in which someone’s whole self is affected by serious illness and including the right members of each piece of their life to be part of the team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered.

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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 ). He looked very ill. My wife is also a physician and she said he’s dying.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. It’s something we need to pay attention to, which is what we were talking about in the article. Melissa: Sure.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We’re going to be talking about default palliative care, a new article that just came out in JAMA this week, co-paired with another article that was published that we did a podcast on last week. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. Alex, who are our guests today? You remember the line?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I’m concerned about how can I get my dad diagnosed or get this proper care.” Alex: So potentially really splitting out the before death and the after death components when we’re talking about what’s important to people who are facing serious illness. Alex: Yeah. Karen: Yeah. Eric: Great. Eric: Yeah, I like it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. Let’s start off with your article, James. It’s a more sensitive subject.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Tsai-Chin’s article, published in Lancet Healthy Longevity, found a tantalizing hint that countries with stronger safety nets had lower incidence of wealth shocks, and less of a deleterious impact of the wealth shock on cognitive function. And a couple of classic articles in this area. Rebecca 06:30 Yeah, absolutely. Lauren 12:34 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

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 01:07 So we have an amazing lineup of guests and we’re going to be talking about a pragmatic study on advanced care planning, which we’ll have links to in our show, notes for the actual article. Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today.

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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. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Why do this?

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). To let it go. . Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. A review article, which I still like to go to. And I also remember.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I think, Winston, in your article, you even said for probably brief periods of time, they’re still conscious. And just not to put too fine a point to it, articles in New England Journal this week about people in persistent vegetative state who were able to accomplish some sort of tasks. This is not the way you break.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. The Right to Try Act, signed by President Donald Trump in 2018, entitles patients with terminal illnesses to try experimental drugs, but it does not obligate insurance companies to pay for them.

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