The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Milburn Smith Child Health Research, Outreach, and Advocacy Center at the Ann & Robert H. Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When I started this blog, I had just received my first acceptance into medical school, and after scouring the web and not being able to find anyone with a similar story as mine, I wanted to create something to not only document my journey through medicine, but help inspire and encourage others to pursue their dreams as well.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

They candidly discuss the unique challenges and opportunities health care organizations face in meeting patient expectations. Dr. Marcos highlights some groundbreaking practices at Kaiser Permanente, like enhancing booking systems and smoothing the onboarding process for new members to increase satisfaction. Guest Wadie L. Marcos, D.O.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? laughter] Alex 01:39 Material here for songs related to medical marijuana or marijuana in general. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eloise 00:59 Thank you so much.

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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. Be patient when you are frustrated. Wear a mask.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You can continue to use your insurance for medications and for labs as well.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). So you published this book intentionally. Like, what is this book? And she said, okay, great, write the book.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. 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. Simple, right?

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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. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Yael 02:12 Thank you.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. What’s in a story? Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Alex: How is your family doing?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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. He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions? On today’s podcast, we’ve invited Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson to talk to us about anxiety.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . She was a heart failure patient. The times, they are a changin’ -@AlexSmithMD .

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And we have Matt DeCamp, who’s joining from the University of Colorado, where he is a primary care internist and bioethicist at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. My worry though with that is that are we going to be expected to be more productive then, to see more patients? The patient is crying in front of you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student. What was it?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function – our complex, frail, older patients are likely to be disappointed. And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management.

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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. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. About 25, maybe even 30 years ago, at the Zen center in Green Gulch in Marin. She has a TED talk.

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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. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I have written about it in the book. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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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. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast Susan.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I love this article as it specifically discusses what’s wrong with “ need ” statements and how we can shift our communication and thinking to create space for deliberation about patients’ priorities and the best course of action. You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. This is Eric Widera. Sunita: Yes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary I hear the word dignity used a lot in the medical setting, but I’m never sure what people mean when they use it. We talk with Harvey about how he defines “dignity” and how we can understand what it means to our patients. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

staff training in person centered care). You’re independent, drive in and out, and the more help you need, so for example, now you need somebody to help with medication administration. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.

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