GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It used to be a much more complicated model. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are.

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Patient-Centered Illness IT Patients 122

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

You can either get one little individual canister of nitrous, or a big canister which costs about 120 to 120. Further complicating matters is that each inhalant has its own special risks. Differentiate between the risks and toxic effects associated with specific inhalants, such as hydrocarbons, nitrites, and nitrous oxide.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. There was a case in BC a few months ago of a woman with mental health issues who had suffered from depression, chronic suicidality at times. Leonie: Right.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Health and health justice. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Is it individual? those experiencing homelessness).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. But it’s the story also.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

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”? With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. So absolutely, it is complicated. Our consultation.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100