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 12:11 And we consult psychiatry.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. I think- Eric: I was going to say that. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right. Should they?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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Families Family IT Community 132