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 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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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. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. He’s in Boston. Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Eric: And in the article that’s being published in JAGS, you have multiple tables. Eric: So I guess it was table two in the JAGS article is about potentially inappropriate drugs. The review articles, the case studies, opinion pieces, things like that. So we’re trying to find articles that maybe support.

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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. Eric: So we got a pretty exciting topic today. Eric: And then what is Clin-STAR corner?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. But it would be an abdication of responsibility not to still have those educational pieces in tandem with a policy that incorporated reciprocity. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. Or is it the primary care document, who’s busy doing other things too, who probably won’t have the time to do a comprehensive geriatric assessment?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And man, I still remember those sessions, some of the most powerful learning experiences of my career as a palliative care doctor. There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. ” And I wonder, how did you fall in love with palliative care? My question is, what article are you most proud of?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

This is the latest in our series of podcasts on concerns about, and potential of advance care planning. Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

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? How did you think about this when you’re together thinking about writing this article? Eric 11:35 And let me ask you this.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

I think the other issue as geriatricians and we need to educate our patients about is now you’re not on one, but six months later on this drug, you go on one. So leaving the office with the script is going to require some education around subsequent medication taking as well as education around the symptoms of ARIA.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. We’re going to be talking about trauma informed care.

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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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Actually, it’s not really an article.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative. Eric 26:01 Curtis’s, he had a 2014 JAMA article on simulation. No difference in their primary outcome. We looked at reach.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care. And she did have a primary care doctor.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

And to keep it short work for an article. Caroline: Again, just further educating on the front lines and families in particular, I think is really important as well as these policy implications. Eric: Ruth, where do we go from here with these pretty … it’s not just, “Let’s educate family and staff.

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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 the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. Let me ask you a question. They had no idea. And they suck at it for a lot of reasons.

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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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

A review article, which I still like to go to. It is kind of weird that my first publication was in jama, part of the Care of the Aging Patient series. Older adults may not have received AIDS education. But I think primary care clinicians, geriatricians, should be able to do at least the basic management and HIV care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. But nothing in healthcare. But I don’t go in as, “I’ve got an agenda” as much as, “Let me educate you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

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. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse. Areej 43:13 Done.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. What instigated you to write an op-ed?

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