GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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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. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Health care system drives where you end up, which hospital, which state you live in. So if we said, like, did you make a decision while one of your loved ones was in the hospital, they would say, Oh, yeah, absolutely. LJ: We provide all the marketing materials. Did they have PTSD? Depression?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

Tiny Physician

JULY 14, 2021

The pediatricians provide their services to young population (less than 13 years as a general rule) and the IM takes care of the rest. Death of an elderly person may not create trouble at the hospital normally but the demise of a 7-year-old child can cause problems from agitated bystanders if not handled well.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? Eric: Six months ago. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? And I think Andrew’s going to have good ideas about, like, why the term paradoxical and are these events paradoxical, truly? Andrew could talk about.

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Families Family IT Patient-Centered 93

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? You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. We only measure tumor math that is very rudimentary to be able to tell us the risk for those events to happen.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So take a listen and check out some of these resources for healthcare provider loss, grief, and wellness: Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Craig: Thanks so much, Alex and Eric.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 106

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. I’m just actually providing really good primary health care.

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