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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I will dedicate a chapter to real estate investing later in this book. With increasing emphasis on patient turnover and documentation, all while navigating the complexities of billing and authorization, our jobs are stressful and time-consuming. Though there are many other forms of investing (e.g., Most clinical physicians are busy.

Finance 52

Finance Individual Management IT 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Okay, now I'll admit I've done a horrible job of keeping up with the blog lately especially given that this is only my fifth post of the year, but today is still super special for me. Somehow in between all the operating, I was even able to submit an academic book chapter and keep up with my academics as well.

Medical Student 52

Medical Student IT Medical Management 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). So you published this book intentionally. Like, what is this book? And she said, okay, great, write the book.

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Screening IT Family Families 119

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Why did you all decide to write an updated book on navigating communication with serious ill patients? Happy to be here.

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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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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care.

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Clinic Chronic Disease Management Primary Care Medical 52

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

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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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. We each had an average between 23 and 25 patients each.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. I’ve had a patient in one room, they have stage four breast cancer. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. 2023.11.004.

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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. Alex: Okay.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. And that’s an ADC of two to three patients a day. I’m excited.

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

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

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. ” He was hardcore.

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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!” That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” Also hat tip to Matthew Growdon for recommending the book. Bob urges you to buy these books from your local bookstore.

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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. Haider: Yeah, this is a special song.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. That’s Oregon Health Sciences University, and whose new book is T he G ift of Aging. And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients. Glad to be here again.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

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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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

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.” Care Ecosystem.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 27, 2025

I read Means's book, "Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health," a few months ago. Ten states have piloted Medicaid managed care projects to address poor nutrition as a health-related social need and use health care dollars to pay for food pharmacies , healthy food vouchers, and medically tailored meals.

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Patient-Centered Family Families Family Medicine 59

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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