Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JULY 4, 2024

I opened my diary (an actual physical book, not Outlook) and the silver ribbon is firmly stuck in the week of Wednesday 22nd May. Must have had a rough clinic, I supposed; a family of 4 had gone in before me, and that is never good. I am catching up on various emails and tasks that I have been ignoring for the past few weeks.

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Doctor On Demand

MARCH 31, 2023

The daily stress and anxiety we face in our lives play a major role in our physical health. The right fit might be a therapist who’s out-of-network, or difficult to get to, or a psychiatrist who’s fully booked, or a counselor who specializes in your concern. Mental health is an essential part of our overall health and wellbeing.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Because of this, carving out the time for family remains a top priority, and as our family grows, more and more time is needed to make that goal a reality. Publishing post after post, week after week, while juggling my clinical burdens, family life, personal goals, my health… it just became too much. Why reinvent the wheel?

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Vida Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As a family physician, I spend a lot of time with patients focusing on how to best take care of themselves to prevent or manage chronic disease. This could be reading a book or listening to a podcast to learn more about a topic of interest, or reviewing your personal goals for the week, the year, or the next 10 years.

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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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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I will dedicate a chapter to real estate investing later in this book. Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. Though there are many other forms of investing (e.g., This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers.

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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. We are all scared. Take a walk. Go to bed earlier.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

So I started asking around in terms of even my colleagues and so forth, you read about these little, like you say, paragraphs in books that say something about what you should do with hearing loss and testing for hearing loss, and making sure hearing aids are in place. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.”

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Edge Family Medicine , serving Upland, Montclair, and Rancho Cucamonga , offers both telemedicine and in-person visits , ensuring you get the right care when you need it. When to Visit in Person Annual physical exams & vaccinations. Why Choose Edge Family Medicine? But how do you decide which option is best for you?

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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). social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2022

From the American Academy of Pediatrics : ​​​Fear, uncertainty, and being holed up at home more to slow the spread of COVID-19​ can make it tough for families to keep a sense of calm. Here are some tips from the American Academy (AAP) to help your family get through the stress of the pandemic. family time & reading​ before bed. ​A

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Naomi, your thoughts on this?

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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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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

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. What’s your favorite book? I am not a board certified. I’m a doctor.

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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 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. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

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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. And I would just plug this book. No, you dont need to be Canadian.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In Lansing , patients appreciate the clinic’s ability to accommodate busy professionals and students, while in Royal Oak , families trust the clinic for their children’s pediatric care. Royal Oak families trust the clinic for both pediatric and adult primary care, making it a true family-friendly option.

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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. . Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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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

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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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

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. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. And I share how years before this patient and their family had prepared advanced directives. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. And I met with his family over Zoom, which was how many of us had to meet with families during that time. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Sunita: Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. But I was sitting vigil with him and just sitting there, just reading a book, just there. There was no race or creed, anything.

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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. They may have few family members, live alone. I called my parents, and we talked.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

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. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? For those of you who do family meetings, doesn’t that take a lot of time? And family members should know that this needs to go on.” ” Sheryl, what do you think? .”

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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.

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