StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. They are scared. We are all scared. Rearrange your rooms.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. Why did you all decide to write an updated book on navigating communication with serious ill patients?

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social awareness and moral reformer, and promoted education for women in medicine through her inspirational book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Simple, right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis? Eric 21:58 I think for the coding, your encounter with a diagnosis. I wonder why?

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. Sammy, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Sammy: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us. What did you learn?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He has a book, which I have read, Facing Death, and we will discuss Facing Death: Spirituality, Science, and Surrender at the End of Life. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. I have written about it in the book. Alex: I love the story of this book, how it starts so locally and then moves on to the Kerala region and then moves to India. Tom: Okay, great.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? ” 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 Eric: Yeah. Dr. Smith, I believe you missed an emotional cue. Charlotta: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. 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. You’re recognizing that, wow, this could happen to me, and I wonder sometimes about the challenges.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. You held your head like a hero, on a history book page. Alex: We are only on the fourth of 10. They ordered mild to hot. laughter] Alex: Yeah. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. And what I want to do is, this is a tough task for you, I’m sure, but I have a patient with a new diagnosis of cancer, and it’s actually a 35-year-old woman. Bob: No, but I know about it. I’m connecting.

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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. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Vincent Millay.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Losing Memory, and Other Things, Too Kennedy’s diagnosis led him to retire, ending a decades-long career as a software engineer at the University of Scranton. He recommends memory cafes to other people with dementia and their families. Socializing can also become more difficult after diagnosis. I get to meet them.

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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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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45. Housewives were burned out.

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Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This is a new diagnosis in my practice. WHEN LIFE GETS REALLY DIFFICULT OR PAINFUL, I TURN TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY. I’m including here an excerpt from The Book of Joy , where the Dalai Lama teaches us Tonglen. And one with which I am, unfortunately, intimately familiar. A sense of isolation from the people in your country.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. At his first job at an HIV organization in Jackson, Mississippi, Sturdevant regularly checked in with clients who didn’t have family members to support them.

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