GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. Maybe even had come in with a complication. Emily, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex 00:24 Great.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? And I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well. Listen in to learn more! It maxes out.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Your provider updates this information at each visit to maintain an accurate picture of your health journey.

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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

These visits help catch illnesses before they become more serious, reduce healthcare costs in the long term, and improve overall quality of life. By investing time in preventive care, you’re helping reduce the burden on the healthcare system while ensuring your own physical and mental resilience. are all common concerns.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. Assessing Accompanying Symptoms in fever In addition to temperature measurement, we doctors evaluate accompanying symptoms to determine the potential causes of illness. F (38°C) is generally regarded as indicative of illness. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Coping in the setting of serious illness. Coping in the setting of a serious illness about a patient encounter you had with somebody who used an. And then I knew, and then I knew that he is using this humor to deal with the truth of his illness, not to avoid it. Should I laugh at that? So you just published not too long ago.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. With their regular providers? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. In their communities?

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I didn’t really know, similar to what Evie was talking about, how to provide any anticipatory guidance or to know what to expect in residency. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Anish 00:54 I do.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness? Is “terminal” mental illness a thing? Eric 01:34 Oh, I love that. Dani 01:36 More to talk about there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. When people have no appetite, they know they’re ill. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Serious illness communication is hard. During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Eric 01:42 So we’ ve got an exciting topic today.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anne Kelly: And I might add to what Anne just described in saying, I think part of the way we got to talking, getting to be able to engage the family is because we took some time to really improve our patient’s illness understanding. Eric: Lynn or Anne? Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Eric: Well, Terri and Emmy, thank you for joining on this podcast. How did you both get interested in this as a topic? ” Alex: Interesting.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. David 12:34 Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Then listen to these prior podcasts with Sean Morrison and Rebecca Sudore about this issue, and we recently discussed differences between Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Communication with Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki. . Where does POLST fit in with this debate? This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

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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

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. He looked very ill. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. There’s all this stuff that we’re supposed to be doing at that stage of life and then you add the complexity of the serious illness. Eric: Yeah. From a personal emotional perspective, what do you think makes it hard?

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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

– Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. What I fell in love with and felt incredibly compelled by was the taking care of seriously ill patients and particularly helping them negotiate emotionally the experience of being very seriously ill. Psychiatric training is about major mental illness. AlexSmithMD .

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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 17, 2022

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. People saw that there were people who needed to have supportive care, didn’t need to have the level of nursing that was provided in nursing homes, and there was money to be made. And I also think it’s a little bit topical. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Nice.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. I think that policy in the emergency department is showing that no matter what that provider is looking to see if a patient has a preference.

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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. And so one of the things that I felt as a resident was moral distress around some of the treatments that we provide near the end-of-life.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A “Three-Stage Protocol” for Serious Illness Conversations: Reframing Communication in Real Time Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. What proportion of time do surrogates of seriously ill patients in the ICU rely solely on the doctor’s prognosis? Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So there are three primary domains.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. And bringing more palliative care to the living with serious illness instead of dying from serious illness population.

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