GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. We provide critical education. Ann: No, he was very excited.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? And I wonder when we think about targeting particular population, it’s not just, you know, how seriously ill they are. Knowledge push the we’re actually testing the Conversation Project toolkit in our second arm, and that toolkit is great because it does provide knowledge and background and stories.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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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. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

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. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty. Lauren: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

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. History of the presenting complaint will be given by the mother and you need to have a good rapport with the parents to obtain relevant details of the illness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. Relationships are usually more complicated. But back to the point.

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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? Wasn’t that the Provide Your Opinion, Don’t Hide It? ” We make sure that we talk about illness understanding and prognosis. We hope you enjoy this episode.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I t’s a collection of personal stories of a small number of health professionals, including Craig Blinderman and Susan Block , who have been struck by personal illness and loss. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Craig.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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