GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. Pallimed post on “ Simplifying Opioid Conversions ”. So, there’s no big differences.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

As climate change increases in certain pediatric illnesses like asthma, pediatricians have a role in caring for children, especially in vulnerable communities. Pediatric clinicians and healthcare systems have an urgent responsibility to advocate for evidence-based solutions to address the climate crisis,” Shalini H.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. 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. It is time to transform healthcare systems to be climate resilient.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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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. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. And very frail.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

I think that, as Ramona will talk about and elucidate a bit further, is just a recognition that in this country we have traditionally, and to my mind continue to do so, cause serious harm to Black people, that you can see that play out within healthcare in ways that are both big and small. Eric: Absolutely. I was going to stop at that point.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. It’s by choice, just like in the community. Did I get that close?

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Did I get that right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I you use the Lee Schonberg prognostic index for community dwelling older adults you will be directed to the tool, and it will automatically place the life expectancy at the calculated prognostic estimate. . So these are really relevant outcome events. But how long does it take until you see those events? See screenshot below.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. I’m Dr. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. Children’s Defense Fund.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. worsening prognosis.

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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 ). . What, published in JAMA IM? James: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

You know, in other places, in most rural communities, the dead are laid out in their own beds, which is very often where they died. Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. And the operative word here is just cremated or just buried. I won’t.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Ruth: Yeah. Ruth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Is that the pace of everything that we do in the hospital, the pace that our trainees kind of go through, it’s fast, and there’s something totally different about standing over someone, asking all these history questions versus just pulling up a chair and just sitting there. We never mentioned caregivers. Home caregivers.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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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. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? Not true, actually.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

I think that we forget that the clinical encounter is very often just two people in a room experiencing each other, and that that’s what is the beginning of that sacred space of healthcare and healing.” This has become a community of people all over the world who come together every week. ” Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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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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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic.

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