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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? And it was like 29eds.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

The idea is, if it works at MGH, that’s a special kind of a place, maybe they do palliative care differently, maybe they have better resources, would this work at other transplant centers that have different kinds of clinicians or that serve different kinds of patients; so we wanted to have diversity of sites and clinicians and patients.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

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IT Relationship Complication Specialization 100

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right?

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? That gets really complicated as well. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. Alex 00:05 To claim credit, p lease go to the C ME tab on GeriPal.org.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. So it was more integrated.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. The intervention itself is very straightforward. It’s a lot.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

And the argument was framed more as a healthcare choice made by individuals in conjunction with their clinicians. I think when professionals act in the interests of their patients, they are acting under their professional duty to patients, period. There’s nothing special about it. So religion, much less.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. We’re moving back to an earlier time, in a way, in which the locus of care wasn’t in these highly specialized hospitals.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115