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JUNE 29, 2025

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. References 1. Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations. Are medications part of that, too? So, a lot of medications, you can see the secondary effects of dysphagia causing those, as well. We’ll also look at cognitive status, medications.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). Rasheeda, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Lastly, I also just want to give a shout out to the last article above which also includes this lovely checklist of methods to address hearing loss in clinical encounters. I’m guessing not. Transcript.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. They get very little build up, they’re depleted.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. You can do this many different ways, but the first one is a little bit more structured, like an assessment that we’re all familiar with clinically.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. How do you choose the right clinic when every option seems equally promising?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. It’s a jackpot software for eczema troubles.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. laughter] Alex 01:39 Material here for songs related to medical marijuana or marijuana in general. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. I knew I wanted to do palliative medicine pretty early Even in medical school. So you have the consultation. Anish 04:13 Yeah.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Infrared thermometers, which measure temperature from the forehead or ear, are also prevalent in clinical settings. More severe symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, persistent vomiting, chest pain, or seizures, are red flags that necessitate immediate medical attention. Consulting your doctor ensures proper treatment.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. So in this case consultations. Scott: Kate would miss you. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

These toxins (but not the bacteria) are the active ingredient in Botox and similar products,” Dr. Joanne Darke, a health protection consultant at UKHSA, told CNN. The practitioners associated with most of the reported cases are no longer carrying out these procedures,” Simon Howard , a consultant in health protection at the UKHSA, said.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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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. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! Alex, who is gonna be answering that question?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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.

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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

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. Kate: Sure.

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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. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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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

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. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Should they?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Ann Henshaw is an occupational therapist who works clinically at Georgetown and teaches at GW. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Ann: Thank you. Very excited to be here.

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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 medication adjustments. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Alex 01:24 And Elise Carey, who’s a palliative care doc and geriatrician and associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” That can all start with you.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Justin Clapp, who is assistant professor of anesthesia and critical care and medical ethics and health policy. He’s a linguistic and medical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania. You’re a linguistic and medical anthropologist. Gretchen: Thank you. Justin: Hello.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta. Charlotta: Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. Tell me about the clinical enc… How do you think the uncanny valley fits into medicine and communication training and skills? Eric: So yeah.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. That includes many medical specialists, surgical specialists, many specialists and many other disciplines who are on our older adults team. Rasheeda, welcome to GeriPal.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers. Eric: You’ve timed it perfectly.

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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.

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