The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. laughter] Alex 01:39 Material here for songs related to medical marijuana or marijuana in general. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Nate, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast. Nate 00:25 Thanks for having me.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. “Do you guys do this?” Eric: Yeah. They’re really not. Emmy: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Alex: We are honored to be joined by Barbara Jones, who is professor and associate dean for Health Affairs at the School of Social Work at UT Austin and chair of the Department of Health Social Work at Dell Medical School. We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. Social pain and loneliness.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. So they had to be within three months of diagnosis and they were going to be randomly assigned to either the traditional model that we’ve been testing.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. See screenshot below.

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Clinic IT Patients Medical 67

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Alex: We are in the California Medical Facility and we will ask our guest about that. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Emily is a bioethicist in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have a wide ranging conversation that touches on how to place aging, disability, and multimorbidity in the context of serious illness conversations, “striving toward normal,” stoicism, existentialism, psychedelics, the goals of medicine, medical aid in dying and more. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. That’s probably too medical. I’m using my medical brain. It’s not all the medical stuff. Jane: Right.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada? Eric: So again, the topic is going to be medical aid in dying in Canada. Four percent. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. And so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer. I have oncology on the brain.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. And your job is to say, “Okay, what’s medically achievable?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to. Who’s going to manage these medications?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: If I remember your article correctly, there was maybe some better things with for-profits, like more community engagement with low-income communities and more engagement with minority communities.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . ” I love The Onion. James: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. We say it’s about 4% of those who are bereaved, who are from community-based samples. This led her on a remarkable journey. So it’s different.

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IT Complication Specialization Relationship 100

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? I have no idea what that is.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. I think bigger cancer centers and health systems can probably implement these, but I think it’s tough in a community based practice to reliably collect these without boots on the ground.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Peter 04:12 Well, I mean, my whole career really has sort of grown along with and moved through the AIDS epidemic. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. This has become a community of people all over the world who come together every week.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Yeah, for sure.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

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

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. And then we also looked at subgroups with who are 75 years and older.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79