GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. And I think that’s when I got hooked on how do we improve care, in my case again, for kids and families, but also for us, the providers. And that was really how SWHPN started.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. I think that policy in the emergency department is showing that no matter what that provider is looking to see if a patient has a preference.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. These findings of differences in non-verbal communication? What should our listeners take away from this study in clinical practice? I love this song.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 112

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community. And even a prostate cancer.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Like, does that indirect?

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. Like, we are not ever included to do that.

IT 112

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 112

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Eric: Nudge it. Kate: Nudge it.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much. The state of the science.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. Get to learn some Spanish for this one.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80