GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! And we were able, because of the way OHSU has the registry and POLST link had just been integrated into our electronic medical records.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. She has advance dementia. Eric: Yeah. Eric: So, let’s talk about that.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. Justification has been used in multiple other contexts.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. So, we did try to get some breadth of guests on our show.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Eric 26:01 Curtis’s, he had a 2014 JAMA article on simulation. No difference.

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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 our point, in this article, is that it’s an inherently unsafe system because humans suck at that. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. To learn more about what we talked about, check out the following links: Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S.

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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. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. Jasmine, is it you?

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Nath declined to speak to KFF Health News for this article. CDC vaccine safety officer Robert Chen built on VAERS to create the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which looks for evidence of vaccine harms in electronic health records. And then, according to emails reviewed by KFF Health News, Nath said he couldn’t help anymore.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. Eric: Yeah.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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