Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We These funds would be a lifeline for many families who are still grappling with health concerns and some economic hardship,” she said. It will support one to three projects that focus on tracking and understanding health issues in the community, CNN reported.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Brian: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. This field is not new. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. Particularly patients, families. This will give people false hope!

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Turns out, in summary people who initiate dialysis have mildly longer lives, but spend more time in facilities, away from home. Well, I got.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Tammie 04:51 Yeah, so I would say that 30 years we’ve been in the palliative care space, not in emergency medicine, but we’ve been advancing the science in general palliative care for over 30 years and just plugging away with it, study after study after study to build the field. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC.

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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. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And although it wasn’t a conscious decision, or connection, in my mind between entering medicine and the experience of having grown up in a family with Ellen. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? Garfunkel says Simon was writing about Garfunklels friend and college roomate Sandy, who was blind. Whos got the right of it? Na 01:01 Yes, I requested the song. We’ll see.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jasmine, is it you?

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Monica Gandhi is a professor of medicine and associate division chief of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF & San Francisco General Hospital. NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.

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