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 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. And then if, let’s say they plan to switch to you as their primary care provider, then there are a few steps that you can take. Noelle Marie 04:57 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions. Eric: Whose job, though, is it?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process. And so you could say that’s sort of starting the normalizing that process of advance care planning. I think it’s all about how important. I need structure.”

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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

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. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

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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

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. But I think that there’s been a lot of evolution to how we even talk about what is a traumatic event.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. So at least in my practice, that’s often how this has happened, unless these conversations have taken place beforehand, either in the emergency room or with primary care providers. It was this slow build, I would say. Julien: Absolutely.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson.

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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. Basically, it’s, a b r doesn’t care if something’s true or not true. A b r just cares … Bob: That’s what you want to hear. AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare.

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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

MAY 1, 2025

Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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