GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Eric 20:51 And your deprescribing was on hospital discharge.

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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. So, every single [inaudible 00:05:10] there is per the table, in an equianalgesic relationship to one another. Pallimed post on “ Simplifying Opioid Conversions ”.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs. 18 U.S.C. §

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers. ” Tamryn: I love it.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs. 18 U.S.C. §

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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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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025 designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. I guess the VA is federal though.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Pearls Black and Indigenous birthing people are 3-13 times more likely to die in childbirth, with the rate varying by location and level of investment in communities. The exact statistics vary by location and by the overall level of investment in services such as childcare and parental leave within each community.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Imagine her hearing for the first time that you’re sick, that you’re hospitalized, that you’re in the ICU, and that you can’t make your own decisions? Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. Eric 20:31 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. 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? Like, it’s like a hospital.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. I can get you guys that information.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. Was it Sarah?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. So it really helped form community between patients and helped build community with the palliative team that was involved. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? We dedicated team working with cancer and palliative medicine in our hospital.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. This language grounds the hierarchical paradigm in interprofessional relationships because of the scope of practice alone, and then also talking about how this is sort of ingrained in our trainees, as you’ve mentioned.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. Sammy: Oh, okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These studies are important. What were those spiritual domains?

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. How are we gonna do that if he leaves the hospital?

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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 ). . Eric: Well, let me push you on that.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

Jerry: Well, for me it’s about, I may have not chose this to be my community, but I chose the actions that led this to be my community. Jeff: Well, a lot of people think that… Or people ask me in the community here about you’re working with people that are dying. Eric: What do you think got you involved?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. So that part we know and I.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. We were often the only ones left in the hospital. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. I hear more and more places have chief wellness officers.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Fam Med Community Health. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7)

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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. Now, you can’t fix a broken relationship by putting it in this box or that box. These kind of tropes inform the mindset that keeps people. They’re just boxes. The box is a box is a box.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. Over time, communication improves. Over time, more trust develops.

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