My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. This isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also about saving money, protecting patients, and strengthening our healthcare systems from the inside out.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 18, 2021

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

“What we’ve seen to make it really work is you either have to be in the hospital, where we’ve taken over palliative care in the hospital, or you have to be contracted with managed care and get it at some kind of risk, because community-based palliative care is very difficult to make operate right now from a profitable [perspective].”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Faculty Regardless of specialty or field, it is important all educators and clinicians do the work of understanding how racism is pervasive within their respective areas of expertise. This starts with self-education and a commitment to speak up when blatant examples of racism come up in the work space and beyond.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. in the usual care group.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. 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. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

And why is it important when we’re caring for older adults or those with serious illness? Eric: So an educational component potentially going on there. I can imagine also sending educational booklets to those people with cognitive issues also may bring up some thoughts of, “Is this really going to work?”

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. So, Dr. McPherson, as far as I can tell, she’s really the only person in our professional community who in any sort of serious public way said, folks we need to do something about this. Landmark study.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Listen in to learn more! Nadine: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Margaret 22:45 So the eligibility was that they had to have a life threatening illness.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Healthcare workers are a trusted health information source and are uniquely positioned to reduce the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to significantly reduce the risk of severe COVID-19-related illness and death, vaccine and booster rates have remained sub-par in the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Our Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to have had trust-building experiences and more likely to have had trust-eroding experiences with the healthcare system. Carine talked about her expertise in empathically communicating with patients as a palliative care physician. Essien MD, MPH, Jazzmin Williams, Alec J.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. ” They’re never really interested in learning about things that we know as healthcare workers. We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. In their communities? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. So what’s the path forward?

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. And that’s sort of where the community more broadly says we use this language.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

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). Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). And yet there are reasons for caution.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Tell me about your illness.

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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. And that was really how SWHPN started.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. For instance, Friday night, Saturday night parties are of community wide.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. Yael 10:52 Yeah. What’s your next step?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Fayron Epps, who is associate professor and director of Community and Research Engagement at the School of Nursing at Emory. Why this focus? Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Then listen to these prior podcasts with Sean Morrison and Rebecca Sudore about this issue, and we recently discussed differences between Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Communication with Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki. . Where does POLST fit in with this debate? This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. 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. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. We provide critical education. Ann: No, he was very excited.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anne Kelly: And I might add to what Anne just described in saying, I think part of the way we got to talking, getting to be able to engage the family is because we took some time to really improve our patient’s illness understanding. Eric: Lynn or Anne? Anne Rohlfing: I just want to piggyback.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. Transcript.

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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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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). It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Welcome back Lona.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. Participants were critically ill and intubated. What is sludge? Eric 01:01 So we got a good topic today.

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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. He looked very ill. Bubbles Up is following Bubbles Up as the song will elucidate. How do you see the light?

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