GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. But we put in a lot of extra time to get certified as a… I’m a certified nurse educator, my twin sister is a certified emergency department nurse. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And great to meet Jace on here.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. 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?

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Tim 43:15 I’m an educator at heart. I always think about the workforce needed in healthcare to have these conversations. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Eric 43:13 Great.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. That can all start with you.”

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. And, you know, some, some relationship with hospice, some might not do many referrals at all to hospice. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice. Reasons why people thought about consulting palliative care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. Then there’s workforce, so thinking about the education and training of the workforce and how do we enhance that. So I am requesting The Sifters by Andrew Bird. Eric: Can I ask why? I enjoyed learning this song.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. I think probably you’ve been hospitalists at some point in your life, you do palliative care consultations.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And so I let him educate me. Potentially harmful elements of that coping mechanism for your relationship with your four year old. And if you look what they did early on, the very first things were relationship rapport building and how was somebody coping with their illness? I sort of called out the coping.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. Nathan: Yeah.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. So that’s great. It’s a hard outcome.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

7 out of 10 of these patients said it was one of the top five most educational and meaningful experiences of their entire lives. Now they’re getting psychedelic experiences, you know, and transformation in a consulting office. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? The flight instructions.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Tell me about your illness.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. I want to let Carla also speak to some of this, too.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. And we’ve been consulted multiple times. Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Years and years ago, the first few years as an attending physician, I was consulted to take care of a gentleman with metastatic esophageal cancer. For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. I knew two things.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, 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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? John: Yeah.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. Eric 04:44 Yeah. And I gotta ask Emily, is that why you started Nocturnist?

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IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

We consult all the time on patients who have advanced directors who say one thing and we’re in a situation where it’s clear they want to do something else. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. So this, I think we had three or four consults. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center?

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer have no relationships to disclose. So this, I think we had three or four consults. And just briefly, we had, Eric knows we had a very challenging ethics consult over the last few months.

Patient-Centered 128

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 128

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role. And then, this little mini consultant. Bob: It’s not bad.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. Safe question from your thoughts, because you actually have a YouTube channel that focused on public education around this. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Anna 04:55 Yeah.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

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 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Alex 10:40 Wow.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” And it’s about her relationship to her therapist at the same time, she’s also a therapist, so it’s about the people that she saw in therapy. One is What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, which is this fabulous book by a guy named Marshall Goldsmith who’s a business consultant.

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IT Medical Student Medical Family 104

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

So, I mean, one thing that I take from Winston’s great paper, which I consulted in writing mine and cited, although maybe not as frequently as I should have, is this idea that a lot of these terms, and I think this is a philosophical perspective that Winston and I are both sympathetic to. Sean 17:40 Yeah. And definitely insensitivity.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It turns out there’s at least pretty good data that actually the better you know somebody, the more intimate your relationship with them, the worse you are, not the better, but the worse you are at predicting their preferences values. We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108