GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. Alex 00:24 Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Transcript. Is that right?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. Kellie: Yes.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Physical activity is a big one. But there are some things that we really think we can modify: the vascular risk factors, sleep, physical activity, maybe cognitive activity, and what kind of bang for the buck could we get? If you’re physically active, you’re probably going to sleep better and your vascular stuff is better.

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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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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. Importance of Physical Examinations Physical examinations also play a significant role in diagnosing health conditions. Include a balanced diet, regular physical activity, adequate rest, and stress management in daily routines. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

It has to do with movement and food in a lot of ways- Tamryn: Physical activity, nutrition, dietary changes. There’s this great article and I’ll send it to you all, it’s called End-of-Life Care Requires Caution With Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring, JPM, from 2020. Absolutely. Eric: Practical advice.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Stigmatisation of survivors of political persecution in the GDR: attitudes of healthcare professionals,” published in the June 2025 issue of Frontiers in Psychiatry by Schott et al. A total of N=1357 practitioners from the German healthcare system participated.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 26, 2025

We dive into these and more in this article. Essentially, longevity is a subfield of healthcare that focuses on prolonging human lifespan and healthy living. The healthcare field has traditionally been among the slowest to adopt new technologies and trends. What is longevity, and how do gyms fit in?

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. BJ: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah. David: Yeah.

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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. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Eric 04:42 There was even less on GeriPal.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

I could go on and on, but listen to the podcast instead and for a deeper dive, take a look at the following articles and studies: Gabapentin in the Perioperative setting: Prolonged use of newly prescribed gabapentin after surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

So they think, who can really help this person with ongoing physical or emotional suffering? Physical, spiritual, social, emotional. Several great articles about this. Cancer is very much not in the rearview mirror and it’s a part of their ongoing daily experience and likely future experience. Laura Shoemaker.

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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. I think we often said that we prioritize healthcare personnel on the basis of instrumental value because it seems less controversial. Govind: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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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 it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare.

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GeriPal

JULY 10, 2025

Like I think I read in the intro of your article, Mitra, like 75% of people older than the age of 75, I think have hypertension. Eric 25:48 All right, I’m going to push you on that because I actually pulled up the original frailty article. James Free’s article from the 1980, I think it was, I pulled it out again.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy. And so that’s good for comorbid conditions.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. I adored this article. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article. Who will emerge victorious? This was a tremendous undertaking. Kudos to you and kudos to all these sites.

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And it kind of made its way into medicine probably around, I’m going to say the 50s after there was a fairly interesting Time Life article that was published. And when that article went to print, it just went ballistic. Gordon Alwasa. Am I saying that right? I always get. Sorry, Demoralization and chronic pain.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We’ve got a, Sheryl published a great article, and Kenny and Ken published an editorial for that article. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. And which journal again?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. We know that a department of healthcare cannot give it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. They actually published a really good article in December on what’s the role, how should we diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? But you wrote an article about what primary care Needs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. We’re going to be linking to two important JAGS articles that our guests wrote just recently in JAGS. Ashwin 00:49 Excited to be back. Kate 01:09 Yeah.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. So my algorithm in that article is really based off the work Van Bo et all have done.

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