GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss. Relationships are usually more complicated. I think that’s more palliative than me.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

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 Family Families Physicals 137

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. Once the need for labor was largely met, anti-Chinese narratives (e.g.,

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. There’s this therapeutic relationship. This is a complicated case.

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IT Illness Family Families 133

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 I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority. Well, I do it personally.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

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 111

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. And it was like 29eds.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Midnight special shine a light on me or let the midnight special shine a light on me let the midnight special shine another loving light on me.” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric 03:30 That was great, Alex.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? It feels special to me.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

I think we shouldn’t be doing advanced care planning before somebody has a serious illness or something that’s likely to end their lives, beyond having a healthcare proxy. The post Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Illness IT Family Families 110

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 Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. That makes it really special for them and for me.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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. 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. This is Eric W id era.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 108

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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

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 96

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. At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. Is that right?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

On the one hand, when I hear of Ob-Gyn’s in Catholic Healthcare systems using “workarounds” to provide reproductive care, I’m standing up and cheering on the inside. And she has a forthcoming book, Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Healthcare Systems, which will come out Spring-ish. Right, Lori? Lori: Yeah.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19