GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. We make a diagnosis. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you. Greg, welcome to GeriPal. It’s so different from therapy. But beyond that.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, it represents the fastest path to a customised differential diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it.

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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. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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. Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network.

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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. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. A short-term sore throat may resolve on its own — monitor symptoms or consult a primary care doctor.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I feel like a lot of this is really, you know, moving away from another podcast we did is industrialization of healthcare and really focusing on the individual that’s in front of you. This is still part of the gap that we need to do collectively as a, as a healthcare organization. Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. I mean, how do you negotiate that with the oncologist who is the one who consulted you, by the way, Eric, who does that go to? They’re asking you for a consultation. After a very long 1 hour consult, you’re exhausted.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Should they? You don’t see it on the PDMP. Katie: Sure.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. And that’s how we connected.

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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.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Samir: Unequivocally, unequivocally. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 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. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

” I revisit the question, Eric, more than once, to try to help them engage with it, but I think at the beginning, I’ll just say, wow, this is… If it’s for somebody with a new diagnosis, let’s say, of something like cancer, “This is a big deal. Eric: Yeah. It was incredible. This is a life changer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. My typical approach with somebody who’s in a methadone clinic, say, a recent cancer diagnosis, and they’re relatively healthy, they can still get to the methadone clinic, although they might not like it, is to. They’re often angry.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I wish they were just a diagnosis. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. The post The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. They have a experience that you will never have had.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. But some of the nuance I would want to point out is that, like Brent mentioned, first of all, this is not a diagnosis. And I’ll say we were clinically at the VA doing inpatient palliative care consults. Like 80 to 90% of patients we see have a psychiatric diagnosis.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? Juliet: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. This way of coping with pluralism is a tradition that he really extended and pioneered and was deeply influential. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Eric 04:38 And can I ask you, when did you.

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