GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 And patients and family members tell us that they worry that their clinician is going to be overly focused on that mortality number now. Alex: Go ahead Matt.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. ” And the requests from management were to ask her to prescribe antipsychotics to try and sedate some of these behaviors away. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. If not, why not?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

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. Alex: What happens when people survive?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place. Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Matt, tell me about the book that you just published. ” And we began this edited version of this book. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Many links: Mara Buchbinder’s book – Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. It’s bigger. It’s bigger than you and you are not me.

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