GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. So you have the consultation. Eric 00:59 Why did you choose this song? Procedure as well as the treatments.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. And not just statistically significant, but clinically meaningful. Eric: And your primary outcome was what?

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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). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. And the same nudge, the withdrawal of life support nudge, also decreased the time to comfort care orders. But importantly, it did not change the frequency of comfort care orders.

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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. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Most oncologists would say no. Should they?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

But we, we do a lot of, a lot of care in the facility. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Dear listeners, if you have a podcast idea, feel free to reach out to us.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I mean, we work at a different part of the health system a lot of times, although we have acute care therapists who do the same thing, but the gap in information flow is similar. We’ll get four people done.” When you ask stakeholders, they just feel safe. And many of them, they have a rapport.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

But you know, the clinical piece, I think it starts out with collecting sexual orientation, gender identity in your databases. And then if, let’s say they plan to switch to you as their primary care provider, then there are a few steps that you can take. What are the things that the listeners to this podcast can do?

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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. But so if someone got admitted, palliative care could see them the next day. Corita 00:30 Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Samir: For me, it really came out of an interest in improving the care of patients who undergo surgery. So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. We’re available, palliative care.

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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. Years and years ago, the first few years as an attending physician, I was consulted to take care of a gentleman with metastatic esophageal cancer. Ivermectin to treat cancer.

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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. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. We have one doula who is really well-trained and well experienced in advanced care planning, and that’s kind of her thing that she does.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. I think we’re getting closer to real live clinical situations, not just answering a test.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

But in California where I practice medical aid and dying is legal and similar to other issues that are controversial in some places, many physicians do not prescribe or do visits for medical aid and dying consultations. Eric: Yeah. ” And you could say, “This would be another example. ” So I can see the strength of that.

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