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MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. I mean, in other work, hard work environments as well.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. Barbara: You do. Eric: Yeah.

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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. Alex: National POLST Collaborative. Good to know. And he’s a professional Uber driver for his daughter’s softball games.[laughter]

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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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APRIL 4, 2024

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. What words to use? Is the POLST useful? Under what circumstances? Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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MAY 25, 2023

Sarah: But as you bring your inner circle into your care, you know, how does that that that feels like an important group to be assessing in terms of psychological outcomes and kind of what their experience with the process is like as they’re navigating illness and serious illness. Alex: LJ, are you going to add to that?

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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. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? I would say that.

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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. And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall. Amber: Thank you guys.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. Eric: Sorry, I was on mute.

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APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments. Chelation therapy.

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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. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. Of these interventions in those individuals. Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness. Nate 19:49 Yeah. Eric 27:45 Yeah.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Kate: Sounds right.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Is that right?

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

And the two were sort of intermeshed even to the point in the eighties, the thought was all dementia is Alzheimer’s or it’s some medical illness or combination of other stuff that’s not about it. That’s in my view as analogous as to any other illness. You need the plaques to have that illness.

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