The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. In their communities? And in the community, not just in acute care”, which is just… First day of nursing school, they’ve told us, “You have to remember that a hospitalization is a blip on somebody’s screen.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. For instance, our indigenous communities, such as some of our indigenous communities use the Term two spirit, to identify their sexual orientation and also sometimes their gender identity.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

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.

Screening 120

Screening IT Families Family 120

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. Alex 00:33 Our next guest is Margaret Ross, who’s a clinical psychologist and researcher at St. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it?

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. That can all start with you.”

Families 98

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. NCP guideline, standard consultation.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. But we, we do a lot of, a lot of care in the facility.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Abby.

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IT Families Family Illness 83

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. The best ideas for research come from my clinical experience. Nathan: Yeah.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? How do you see the light? John: Yeah. It just depends.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. Liz: Well, some aspects of this paper around clinical momentum and things around defaults and that sort of thing. Liz: I do, indeed. Proud Mary.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Bill, welcome back to GeriPal.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Jennifer 07:31 From.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. So I’m hearing, and I’d love to talk about specific diets and maybe the evidence for them, but before we do that, how should we ask about this in our clinics?

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And I chose one in particular experience to write about, a trans woman who I call Jamie in the piece, who I had known prior to the pandemic who I was treating as a palliative care consultant for her cancer related pain. The primary loss almost always sets into motion a further cascade of social and emotional consequences. She was homeless.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try. Teva, I want to go to you.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108