GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. So with actors and a clinical scenario where you hold everything else standard. Amber: Thank you guys.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here , here , here , and here. You know the case.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? So therapeutic humility is the ability to tolerate clinical ambiguity, to accept and honor the patient’s expertise, and also to be able to kind of relinquish the need to fix. We examine, we diagnose, we fix.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. The post The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I started bending over backwards. Definitely a deviation.

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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. So we sent that to everyone 65 and older with upcoming visits, though we were tracking on our side the people who had diagnoses and things. Before the primary care visit.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

By rushing this into clinical practice and suddenly saying people that have positive amyloid based on an imperfect biomarker, especially now they have Alzheimer’s disease, I think we’re opening massive potential for harm and distress and predatory practices upon these people. I’m not. I share that vision.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed. And so we have basic treatments for these issues that we train oncology clinicians to bring up in clinic practice. These are oncology nurse practitioners.

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