The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. Experts even say the eye is an ideal place to start for the first clinical use of CRISPR.
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? We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. I’m guessing not. How to screen for hearing loss. Transcript.
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GeriPal
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Coping in the setting of serious illness. Coping in the setting of a serious illness about a patient encounter you had with somebody who used an. The clinical trials and the this and that. Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? Should I laugh at that?
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.
GeriPal
MAY 9, 2024
all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. Hsien: Hey, great to be here.
GeriPal
JULY 21, 2022
We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
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 think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again.
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