GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. If not, why not?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. Karl: Okay. Karl: You can write it in. That’s part of why that not part of the form, right?

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. She has advance dementia. Eric: So, let’s talk about that. They would be horrified.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Alex: Thank you.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond?

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Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology. I’m so sorry.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73