Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. I think someone has a song request for Alex. Raele: I do. I have one. Change by Blind Melon. Eric: Why did you choose this?

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

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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. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight. So here we go.

Illness 102

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. What is it called?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. But some of the nuance I would want to point out is that, like Brent mentioned, first of all, this is not a diagnosis. And I’ll say we were clinically at the VA doing inpatient palliative care consults. Like 80 to 90% of patients we see have a psychiatric diagnosis.

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