Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A family pediatrician. While urgent care clinics are great for immediate, non-life-threatening issues like a sprained ankle or flu symptoms, they don’t provide the long-term, personalized care that primary care does. Choosing the Best Primary Care Provider in Michigan Inquiring about the clinic for primary care in Michigan.

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Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Mental Health IT 52

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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Screening IT Families Family 119

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. I heard that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Alex: How is your family doing?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? And so I thought it was appropriate.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: So yeah.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Areej. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. Hsien, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Hsien: Hey, great to be here. Sammy, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. And the medical approach to these patients was very limited, but people were treated in their homes, with their families, with enormous compassion and care, which is what was really the antithesis. And that did not seem right to me. And the focus was on their comfort.

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Illness IT Families Family 109

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.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Midnight special shine a light on me or let the midnight special shine a light on me let the midnight special shine another loving light on me.” Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. A pill organizer, having family. Eric 00:05 And Alex, who do we have with us today? He’s in Boston.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. They ordered mild to hot. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. Kathleen 07:49 Yes.

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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. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. Eric: 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. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. There’s something magical that happens in small group storytelling. We model that small group storytelling experience today.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

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. Ashwin 18:08 These are things that we often see from a clinical standpoint.

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Patient-Centered IT Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

It feels special to me. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies. It isn’t the randomized trials, which are very important, obviously, for the work that all of us do, the work that I do clinically. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship. Alex: Great choice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. Eric 18:14 Elizabeth, how do you bring it up in your clinic? So I lived with a family there.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Funding for research and clinical care is at risk, as USAID and PEPFAR (which is under USAID), are shuttered. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Millions of lives are at stake.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? Eric: Like since a little kid?

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