GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Alex: It’s a wonderful book.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. We could have talked for hours! Juliet: Lund, yeah.

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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. In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Additionally, here are some of the resources we talked about during the podcast: Eduardo Brueras editorial that accompanies the JAMA paper titled Improving Palliative Care Access for Patients With Cancer Our podcast on Stepped Palliative Care with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar The book What’s in the Syringe?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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 ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. You’re a disgruntled medical student. What was it?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. ” BJ: Well, I fall back on using physiology in the sort of medical sense. You think about the Book of Job, you think of Buddhism, and it’s so foundational to the field of palliative care. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. I mean we know medical care has been really important to people who live in assisted living communities.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

It’s great that saying this patient has these symptoms in a conversation that’s very long, but then it actually may volunteer saying, “I think this symptom is from this medication or it could be from the,” and I didn’t even ask for that. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. One is to seek additional training because the standards of care from wpath, which literally outlines how you would manage hormones, is there. Noelle Marie 04:57 Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. I don’t manage anybody, but I get to sit in on some leadership meetings and make my voice heard.

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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. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Very excited to be here. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Julianne: It’s interesting because I think I read somewhere that a finding in science often takes about, on average, 17 years to make it into medical practice. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? She tried to extend conversations beyond what was medically, I think, necessary for the encounter.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I will say that it’s challenging, because we don’t have, unlike City of Hope, we don’t have a big team like they do of geriatricians and palliative care physicians, who can screen these older adults or help with management. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

[link] Promising Practice Recognition PEACH was named a Promising Practice in equity-oriented palliative care as part of a national initiative funded by Health Canada, operated by Healthcare Excellence Canada & the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. To medical directors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Is this a case of medical negligence? To establish medical negligence, 4 conditions have to be satisfied and these conditions are popularly known as 4 Ds of medical negligence. Therefore, a case of medical negligence will not stand, let alone murder charges. Unsuccessful treatment cannot be labelled as medical negligence.

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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. . And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. Wait, what ? .

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA.

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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. It was this slow build, I would say.

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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. Medical Assistance in Dying and Palliative Care: Shared Trajectories Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For more, Laura suggests a book titled, How to Talk to a Science Denier. And so this term was developed by our group to capture either non traditional therapies or really conventional medical therapies that patients may be pursuing with little hope of reaching a goal of care and significant risk. Did I say that correctly?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. I’m excited.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). Alex: Coming up we talk with three pastoral care workers who are inmates who have been volunteering in the hospice at the California Medical Facility prison for some time. ” He was hardcore.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Mariah 15:00 In books and literature that’s out in public, like the body keeps the score is probably one that many people have heard of, but there are others that I think talk about it more now than has been in the past. I can see why you feel xyz afraid of medical care, for example. Mariah 20:13 I completely agree.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” Also hat tip to Matthew Growdon for recommending the book. Today we talk with Bob Arnold, who has a long list of recommendations for books that have the potential to generate an “ah ha!” Please shop locally. Please shop locally.

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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. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Alex 00:20 We are delighted to welcome Anna Pleet, who did her medical training in Italy and is now doing internal medicine residency in the United States. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Glad to be here again.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services. Prof Case Manag. So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. Geriatrics. This is something that we see.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). Vincent Millay. Vincent Millay.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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