Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? David: We used the VA specific care assessment needs score, which- Eric: Oh, the CAN score.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. ” But there seems to be something special when we move from something that we can just check box like, “I’ve done this,” like a lab order or imaging study.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. This is a complicated case. The post Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Relationships are usually more complicated. The post Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I think that’s more palliative than me. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. Thank you.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Sarah: So I think and there are definitely to answer your original question, Eric, that there are populations and and maybe even populations or groups within certain populations that the three of us are working with that have potentially special needs around advance care planning. Did they have PTSD? Depression?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

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.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

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.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

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 IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I’m a little different when we’re upstream on both of those scores.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

The post Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. And the hardest stuff that we deal with in palliative care is the psychosocial stuff. Susan: I think communication and reflection on communication. What led you to say this and not that?

Illness 109

Illness IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? The post Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

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

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. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. This shouldn’t have happened. And I was.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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. Eric 25:08 Super special. Eric 47:55 And thank you to all of our listeners for joining us on this prognosis… Alex 48:00 Super special e P rognosis. Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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 Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

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 that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. I don’t think it needs a special term particularly. Robert: Professional relationship.

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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