GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. ” Thank you for explaining to us.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane: Thank you for having me. John: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. And I would never use BMI because when I started working in this field, the BMI was about five or six points lower than it is now.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. I’m fully present. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. To diagnose, to come up with a formulation, to be able to really get hold of the cause of this individual suffering. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries. Eric: Bill. Bill: Yeah. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. The intervention itself is very straightforward. Before the primary care visit.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. So snaps to Ricky, but he presented this case to us of a person who had had a heart operation.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. Sharon 15:21 Right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. The post What is Death?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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