GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Jessie: Exactly.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. Alex: I wonder when we talk about it, because we’ll have links to both Eric Cassell’s argument, and we mentioned another article from Tate. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. Or is it that I’m just not screening?

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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. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Lyndsay DeGroot, who’s a nurse researcher and T32 postdoc at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. This parallels another process, which is the medicalization of human experiences, especially those relating to childbirth and pregnancy.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. I had it on my screen. 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 so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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. So medication adjustments. Gordon Alwasa. Am I saying that right? I always get. Like all of.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here.

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. Nathan: I have drawn for my entire life, but I gave up cartoons because I thought I had to during medical school and residency. Eric: And this one just came out.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” It is a screening? I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY. Is it an assessment?

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. It is intended to be a continuum of care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. 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. Did they screen charts? Ashwin: Yeah.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Alex 00:40 We’re delighted to welcome Alexis Drutchas, who is a palliative care doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and co founder, also of the Palliative Story Exchange.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. And they had requested in their cultural tailing that the physician wore a white coat when he was going to be seen on the screen. I’m Na Ouyang. Eric 00:42 Great.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: We are so fortunate to be joined by one of my former mentors who I’ve known for 20 years, Holly Prigerson, who is now Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical School and Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Center for Research on End Of Life Care. So that criticism really got me.

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IT Relationship Complication Specialization 100

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. From perhaps the most sensitive instrument that we can get the family members report, while at the same time trying to sort of screen out potential false positives that are due to false hope or something like that. Did you have a different medication?

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

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, Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. Let me ask you a question.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And on that, I found a link to this article by Rick Moody called Elders in Climate Change, No Excuses, in which he argues that elders are the group that benefited most from the massive consumption of fossil fuels in the post World War II eras. I mean, many people in their mid to older years are on certain medications. Ruth: Right.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. 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). Institute for Poetic Medicine.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the contents credibility: fact-checked trusted source proofread Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A first-of-its-kind study by La Trobe University has shown the critical contribution surfers make to beach safety in Victoria.

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Provider Community Medical Diabetes 53

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. Lon: No, that’s a straight out screen. Specifically their position is beta-amyloidosis.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

No matter what your position on medical aid in dying (I’m ambivalent) or abortion (I’m pro-choice), this is a bioethics podcast, and I hope that we can all agree that the ethical issues at stake deserve a critical re-think. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.

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