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

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. So thank you, Matt.

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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. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. I had a chance PSA, got diagnosed after a biopsy and it was like I read about in the book, it just blew the walls out of my house.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. How do we see each of you as individuals who are having your own struggles? It’s very fraught. I was 15 and I discovered Led Zeppelin and it was a religion for me. It was incredible.

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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

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Meredith 17:07 Yes. And I think patients too, don’t always people.

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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. They have given him purpose, Kennedy said, and help him cope with negative emotions around his diagnosis. Socializing can also become more difficult after diagnosis.

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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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Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This is a new diagnosis in my practice. I’m including here an excerpt from The Book of Joy , where the Dalai Lama teaches us Tonglen. As the Dalai Lama explained, whether or not it actually helped those on the ground, it transformed his relationship to the suffering and allowed him to respond more effectively.

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