GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. ” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. What is your clinician to patient ratio?

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. Now patients are living so much longer that they’re coming back to my clinic after I’ve treated them with radiation. Eric 00:59 Why did you choose this song?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. They are looking to build on both their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the Associate Chief of Research and for full-time physician faculty to join them in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

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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. If you put on your clinical hats, what is demoralization to you?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so bathe is an acronym.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

LJ: I’ll take that one that I feel really strongly that we are not assessing the right outcomes in advance care planning, and I think that’s part of the problem, is that we I think we do this in a lot of science and a lot of research in clinical medicine too. Hillary or Sarah. Thoughts on that. Hillary: So those all differ.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amber tells the moving story of how these findings led a clinical colleague, her chief, to question and change his behavior. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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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. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Eric: Thanks, Scott.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

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. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? ‘I want everything.'”

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? Like, how would I define it?

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

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. And in addition, my work in palliative care, I also am a clinical ethicist. An increasing number of federal leaders have a track record of endorsing such products. Stem cell treatments.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Who do you give informed consent to? This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Why did you write this paper?

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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. At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. We did it by the clinic level.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

He really practiced what he preached. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And we were able to work under a waiver of informed consent with making the case that we were promoting, which should be standard of care.

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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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