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. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Identify ways to navigate clinical interactions with patients while respecting them and affirming their experiences with food and fatness. Between the years 2019 and 2021, Harrison served as Associate Editor—and later as Managing Editor—of Wear Your Voice Magazine. is rooted in anti-Blackness. Williams-Forson and Da’Shaun L.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? And when I read that book my intern year, it possessed me.

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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

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. Brad, welcome to GeriPal.

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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

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. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. She was a heart failure patient. Because that really is what this is about. What’s in a story?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. So, what are your tips to help non-palliative care docs understand what Palliative care is and how it impacts patient care? Alex: And, it means pain management. Eric: That was the SAT answer.

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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. . She was a heart failure patient. The times, they are a changin’ -@AlexSmithMD .

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And also kind of highlights, you know, part of what we try to do in geriatrics and palliative care is really individualize how we care for individual, like, the people in front of us, the patients, the caregivers, their family members, their friends. And then the other thing is really partnering with your patient or your clients in terms of.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. I just had this experience where in the space I was in, very few people believed that this was even a legit thing to study and certainly that it would make a difference for the patients we cared for. What are the patients that we remember?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Think chemotherapy to imminently dying patients, or CPR. Think chemo.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? Naheed 15:53 Yeah, 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). Is this a case of medical negligence?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 04:44 Could just make you a little bit more resilient, you can increase your Rvus so you can see more patients. It’s really not about helping the patient or physician. So people are not so excited about this idea of resilience in the old fashioned way, this idea that it’s up to you. If you were just. Eric 17:16 Right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If you want a deeper dive, check out the following resources: Our Nature of Suffering podcast with BJ Miller and Naomi Saks Dani Chammas Annals paper on countertransference and why we shouldnt say that the patient was difficult rather than that I felt frustrated. Mariah 20:13 I completely agree.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And I actually shared that story with Bonnie’s manager and she just thought it was pretty cool that the whole thing had come full circle, the song that she was inspired by them and then they were so moved by the song that she wrote. .” But I was sitting vigil with him and just sitting there, just reading a book, just there.

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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

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book. Eric 06:41 Yeah.

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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. Matt, tell me about the book that you just published. ” And we began this edited version of this book. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services. Prof Case Manag. Journal of Patient Experience. I mean, it’s something that frustrates me on a daily basis, the number of times that I’ve had to argue with patients and even my own grandparents. Geriatrics. December 2020.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. 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 so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. It is kind of weird that my first publication was in jama, part of the Care of the Aging Patient series. And I think patients too, don’t always people. Meredith 11:29 Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular we spend a good deal of time talking about what this means for asymptomatic patients who may have an abnormal biomarker, which by the proposed new definition would mean they would now have Alzheimer’s disease. You can’t just give that value to a patient. Eric: Wonderful. laughter] Heather: Good point.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

We start by talking with Robert Brody, an internist who recalls physicians helping patients die during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. It’s bigger. AlexSmithMD.

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