GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice? So if we look at the strict diagnostic criteria, yes, there are kind of time based components to that. And so bathe is an acronym.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness. Alex: It’s complicated. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? So am I measuring it for that specific clinic level quality metric or am I measuring it for my research study? I think one of the strengths of a group visit is that you can choose the materials that you want that are actually most helpful to the individuals who come to your clinic. Did they have PTSD?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Keri Brenner, who is also a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor and clinical associate professor at Stanford. I’m really excited about this because clinically this happened to me, somebody was very angry at something we were talking about.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. Which is… In fact, I was approached by the Mayo Clinic recently.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. Eric: That’s a complicated form then. You write who the surrogate is.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. I am very much into the fact that when you are really hypogonadic, clinically hypogonadic, I try to prescribe testosterone.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. We did it by the clinic level.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. Clearly this issue is important to patients. Sharon, welcome to Jerry Powell.

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