GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Serious illness communication is hard. During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Eric 01:42 So we’ ve got an exciting topic today.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. And so we do have consultants who come in the building.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. But importantly, it did not change the frequency of comfort care orders. Kate: Sounds right.

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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. Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

So if you think about 100 patients per year, that you need to have some benchmark after going into business to care for so many terminally ill patients. And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. It feels somewhat random in some ways.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. His lymphoma had relapsed, and palliative care was consulted to help with his symptoms. It was my first concert without my parents. I’ll call my patient.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And I was.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. So this, I think we had three or four consults. Doing home care? Hospice visits? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Why do this?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. In some cases, it’s actually their first manifestation of illness.

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