GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. Same thing with kind of medication management. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. If the patient has a spectacular response to HIV management or the cancer treatment, then the main factors are removed.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? And when they talk to patients and families, it’s a pretty easy sell. Every time.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. And it was like the lights came on. This guy came alive.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. So it’s not just like the patient or the family, but it’s also the healthcare system. James 19:32 Yeah, exactly.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. Turns out, it’s maybe not. Loss is different than grief.

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