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. And he’s a professional Uber driver for his daughter’s softball games. Hey, it’s National POLST Collaborative now.

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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. Amber: Well, simulation is pretending, so I think of the way I use simulation is in trying to simulate clinical care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. And there are people for which methadone is the preferred treatment over buprenorphine.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Eric: I also wonder, thinking about our own medical school training, at least mine, is that there wasn’t a lot of normalizing emotions in our med school. Not my normal clinical practice. There’s so many elements of a patient that’s hospitalized or going through our medical system. We’ll act it out.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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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 that was one of the reasons that was appealing to us is that the conversation guide and could be delivered by lay facilitators in partnership with the clinical practice.

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