GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. So we got a lot to cover.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? So it could be a case manager at a shelter or an outreach worker who works in the encampment areas of Toronto. Naheed 15:53 Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100