The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. The publishing of this post marks Chapter 8 of my work and the start of the back half of this potential book. Set it and forget it! As always… Stay motivated! The Motivated M.D.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. What’s your favorite book?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. 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. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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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. Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? Her book is called Nothing to Fear.

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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 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

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We didn’t think that there was something unique to the modality delivery in which palliative care was providing that care. Who will emerge victorious? Eric 10:25 Great.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me. All the time. ;).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. But I mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy. I like it, John.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

People saw that there were people who needed to have supportive care, didn’t need to have the level of nursing that was provided in nursing homes, and there was money to be made. I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs. Others take care of people less so, a more hospitality model, if you will.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. However, she found herself in trouble when one of her patients, whom she treated at her hospital, died due to postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding from the birth canal after delivery).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sunita: Honestly, I’d be happy to provide the vocals. You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I have never had a patient come into the hospital and say, Doctor, regardless of what you do, do a little CPR that’ll make me feel better. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine. Harvey: I feel welcome.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For more, Laura suggests a book titled, How to Talk to a Science Denier. I think they may not be likely to provide much benefit, but because they’re water soluble and you just pee it out, they’re probably not causing much harm, except for potentially financial harm if they’re very costly. Oh, go ahead, Jill.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. We were often the only ones left in the hospital.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. It was clear.

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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. . Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Despite your background, Alex.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. 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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. We should be completely ashamed that this is going on in our hospitals. Yeah my life totally sucked because I was double booked.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

And so I do encourage you to be familiar with some of the information provided by the CDC as long as it’s still online. When a complete history and physical examination cannot identify a specific source of fever greater than 39 centigrade or 102.2 So how common is it for children to be unvaccinated in the United States?

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Farah provides clear examples from the Biden administration, in which having the most diverse cabinet in history was critical to building bridges, empathy, and inspiring others to feel included. I had the pleasure of listening to this book with Farah reading it. It is a terrific book. And that was through torture.

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