Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

At the Family Medicine office, I observed the close relationships fostered between Dr. Der Simonian and her patients. During this day I observed one medication abortion administration and two aspiration abortion procedures, the second of which was complicated by hemorrhage (which was swiftly controlled).

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Medical Student Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Eric 28:10 Eric, it’s been 20 years.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

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 94

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? Take a stab, Alex, in one sentence, I think more total time bias is when the start time for one group doesn’t begin until some event happens and therefore they have to survive until that event. Maria 36:03 Yes.

Management 117

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Those that were at greater risk of having complications from COVID or even dying from it, in the early stages at least, were those who were older and those who were of certain racial or ethnic minority groups. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? So it’s no surprise, to me, that the outcomes will be different.

IT 92

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food. Or not just address, but reassure, but also recommend things like smaller meals, etcetera.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. Eric 17:52 What do you hear?

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But the palliative care clinicians didn’t have the time or opportunity to foster and develop a longitudinal relationship with patients and their families. We needed to build the relationships and trust and really provide a really good example of the value of palliative care outside of end of life care and advanced care planning.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. What I often hear, grief, that normal, often, and we just had Holly Prigerson on the podcast talk about complicated grief, but grief in itself, that reaction, that is often triggered by loss. And we don’t talk about it as much. Eric: Yeah.

Healthcare Professional 103

Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 103

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. It’s not just in the next couple weeks or months.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108