Remove Complication Remove Education Remove ER Remove Relationship
article thumbnail

Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep? Eric 24:51 Yeah.

Illness 130
article thumbnail

Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Relationships are usually more complicated. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Because this is where the seed of the idea started for all this music for me.

IT 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER.

article thumbnail

Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Alex 06:10 Or having watched that John Oliver episode about DaVita, we will have a link.

article thumbnail

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

article thumbnail

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. We can make this better.