GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. 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. And how am I going to manage their pain? Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. We could have talked for hours! Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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. Jessie: Thank you.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

FDA Law

MAY 5, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget will review the rescheduling proposal. Democratic state attorneys general viewed rescheduling “as a public safety imperative” and also encouraged rescheduling to schedule III based on FDA’s “scientific and medical conclusions.” and lack accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. We’re pretty familiar with that in palliative care.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. My entree into healthcare is not in the academic space at all.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada? Four percent. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. Oh my gosh.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. It was this slow build, I would say.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. I wasn’t able to really fully recover from that, from a relational standpoint, and as best I could do symptom management along the way.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). Alex: Coming up we talk with three pastoral care workers who are inmates who have been volunteering in the hospice at the California Medical Facility prison for some time.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 21:31 Blog post, if we’re talking about the same study, was like, fast food palliative care, in and out palliative care, something like that. Or the article that, the fast food article, to use the parlance from the blog post. It’s not just about physical symptom management. This is Eric Widera. We’re what?

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). The former officials implore following the science demonstrating marijuana’s high addictive potential, its lack of accepted medical use, and the rescheduling impact on prosecuting drug trafficking organizations.

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Medical Healthcare Professional Community IT 59

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And you’re supposed to read the medical literature and basically I have sort of found that the medical literature are not the books that have helped me get better or smarter. He basically is talking about people who got promoted to senior management. Bob: And how they sucked at senior management. Well it helps you.

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