GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. What is it called?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. They don’t have an addiction clinic. Eric: And why Under Pressure. I’m going to start off with Katie. Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. SPONSOR: .

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. Eric 07:03 Yeah, it’s hard because you can also think about it, let’s say, because we see palliative heart failure clinics. I sound smart. Alex 40:57 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 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

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” That is the first clinical use case.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship. Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” I was a clinical ethics fellow at Baylor College of Medicine.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? It’s going to be really hard psychologically for the clinical team, the surrogate, to override that default. You’re in it.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

This year is shaping up a bit differently with all four OPDP enforcement letters addressing healthcare professional materials (including a speaker slide deck!!). Maximizing patient clinical outcomes and quality of life may ultimately minimize healthcare resource utilization. Healthier populations are more productive.

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