GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events.

Patient-Centered 66

Patient-Centered IT Screening Individual 66

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: So those all differ. Alex: LJ, are you going to add to that?

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago. We’re talking about liver.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. My voice is nothing special. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. Alex 09:00 Not true. Oh, my gosh.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. She softened to her suffering, and she trusted me enough to have a moment, that she could look into that and see that, yes, she had her clinical judgment, which was fine, but also that there was another processes going on, which was her own suffering. Pain Manag Nurs.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. In clinic, I’m helping what, hundreds or thousands. Even if I write a scholarly article.

IT 105

IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Why do this?

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. I think that in almost every clinical encounter, we struggle with what’s ours and what’s someone else’s? To let it go. . Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful. How much are we there as people? How much does it matter?

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Eric and I also reflect on the podcast Randy generously did with us on his experience living with and studying serious illness.

Patient-Centered 83

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. In some cases, it’s actually their first manifestation of illness.

Illness 59

Illness Vaccination Family Families 59