StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. I recently finished seven consecutive shifts in which I, along with my incredible co-workers, have been part of our hospital's evolving approach to the growing concern of Covid-19. Wear a mask.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

COVID-19 infection continues to result in hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations annually, and causes the deaths of hundreds of Americans each week. Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID. We need all tools available to prevent complications of COVID-19.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider. They're designed to provide quick, efficient medical attention for conditions that require timely care but aren't life-threatening.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. The content is provided for information purposes only. "If we had said were going to do this for the homeless or the prison population, the Legislature might not have been as willing to get on board," he added. Your feedback is important to us.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. They would eventually end up back at where the hospitals they came from.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. With their regular providers? It used to be a much more complicated model. David: Right.

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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.

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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

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. hospice use).

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? My voice is nothing special. So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. Like, it’s like a hospital. Tyler 01:43 Okay. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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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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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. This is a complicated case. Anne 11:57 Scenario uno.

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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 mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. Do you worry about that? Mazie: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Also the same hospital system?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. 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? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. By diagnosis?

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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. . Kind of flabbergasting.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Health care system drives where you end up, which hospital, which state you live in. So if we said, like, did you make a decision while one of your loved ones was in the hospital, they would say, Oh, yeah, absolutely. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Did they have PTSD? Depression?

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

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. 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) ™.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. 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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 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

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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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 so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. We should be completely ashamed that this is going on in our hospitals. I’m just actually providing really good primary health care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. Doctors who agree to work for the armed forces receive special benefits. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old.

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