GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Susan: Yeah, that was me.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork? Not burnout.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Any one of our podcasts with Bob Arnold, including this one on the language of serious illness or this one on books, to become a better mentor.

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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. Saving money is simple but not easy. Fight this temptation.

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Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 27, 2023

While nutrition and physical activity are certainly important for overall health, they are only one part of the big picture. Insufficient Sleep Window : One of the most common situations that I see is that individuals are not allowing themselves an adequate time period for sleep.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

JANUARY 19, 2022

Address children’s fears Children rely on their parents for safety, both physical and emotional. When safe, physically distanced visits aren’t possible, video chats can help ease their anxiety. All children, including teens, benefit from routines that are predictable yet flexible enough to meet individual needs.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

While many states have had standing orders that allow for the dispensing of naloxone without an individual prescription, “harm reduction programs” that provide products and services to at-risk individuals still faced logistical difficulties in acquiring naloxone due to its prescription-only status which I discussed in this October 2022 blog post.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity.

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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. Eric: And just a quick note, Sammy too on TikTok and on Instagram.

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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

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. And I would just plug this book. Canadians are welcoming.

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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

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. If they physically come here, it’s sort of just the natural course of things that they’ll walk into the room with the patient. But it really does need some individualizing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. And again, to step back and look at the bigger picture, there’s a book that I wrote, or I didn’t write it, goodness, I read it in my intern year, by Jeff Bishop. And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me. All the time. ;).

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Michigan professor, Robert Ettinger proposed cryonics in 1964 in a book called The Prospect of Immortality, which argued that death could, in fact, be a reversible process. There are now nearly 300 cryogenically frozen individuals in the US, another 50 in Russia , and a few thousand prospective candidates signed up.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you need a routine physical, vaccination, or management of a chronic illness, this clinic has you covered with a focus on holistic and individualized care. You can call any of the clinic’s locations in Detroit, Corunna, Lansing, Royal Oak , or Van Buren , or visit their website to book an appointment online.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. And you can’t really predict how each individual might react to the same experience. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day. It’s just not.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. You held your head like a hero, on a history book page. What would you do with the money, Eric? This is the chicken wing sauce.

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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

You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. So it provided just a gem of something, connection around this story that had both been meaningful to both individuals, we’re humans too, clinicians. ” “How did that happen?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. I would say that.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

I’m thinking about how when you’re a teenager, everything seems so profound and meaningful and the music and the books and the media that they’re reading, it’s exploding in their brain and it’s creating just so much meaning. How do we see each of you as individuals who are having your own struggles?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Naheed 20:04 And you know, the key to this conversation is not to put the onus on individuals.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. It’s such a physical act, showing just how strong doctor’s moral resolve is to save a life. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Eric: You’ve done a lot, you’re a prolific author.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today. She also teaches people who are interested in writing their own books. And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So it’s a five component scale and it includes slow gate speed, weak and grip strength, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, and low physical activity, which I really like thinking about those components. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important. Eric: Great.

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Doctor Rachel

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I also mention a number of books throughout, which give more detailed accounts of the points discussed.) book, Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love , with John and Julie Gottman, is an attempt to share this life-changing practice of “dating” for a lifetime with others. Our recently released (and now bestselling!)

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But I was sitting vigil with him and just sitting there, just reading a book, just there. I am there with individuals who are dying. And she’ll never forget that book that they read together. He might want to write his mom and he’s not physically able to write anymore. ” He was hardcore.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For more, Laura suggests a book titled, How to Talk to a Science Denier. Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. It’s like a third of people need chemical or physical restraints to keep that in. How about parents advocating for a child? Laura 07:03 That could be a PULET.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. There’s a reason that’s in… How many prints?

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. When a complete history and physical examination cannot identify a specific source of fever greater than 39 centigrade or 102.2 Fahrenheit in a previously healthy otherwise well-appearing child.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

I had the pleasure of listening to this book with Farah reading it. It is a terrific book. If you read Edwin Baptiste’s book about cotton and slavery, you see that from over a 40 year period, slaves were tortured to produce four times as much cotton as they had to produce just 40 years earlier. It was a foolish change.

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