GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. So in this case consultations. Because now it requires another step to cancel the consult.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

Climate Change: A Growing Health Crisis Climate change is often framed in terms of rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and extreme weather events. As a marketing consultant for MGD, I also bring this lens to our content and campaigns — ensuring that our messaging reflects both the environmental and health dimensions of sustainability.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. Ann: My palliative care doc is great.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I’m just wondering, how do we get surgeons, and maybe, how do we teach surgical trainees to move away from this fix-it mentality into the space of deliberation where deliberation is actually invited and prioritized in the surgical consultation? People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. ” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories. His lymphoma had relapsed, and palliative care was consulted to help with his symptoms.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 21, 2023

FDA did, however, try to identify safety issues through the medical literature and (after 2007 when mandatory safety reporting for OTC human drug products marketed without an approved application became effective) through the adverse event reporting system.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. If the consult is for “code status,” I always ask them, take a look at your past conversations. But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Devika: Thank You. Eric: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And that these serious illness conversations ought to involve more palliative care consultations, I think. Is there a role for the primary care doctor, for the anesthesiologist, for the consulting team, for … Eric: Integrative geriatrics. And I think that we do need more of that information and you’re right. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. I love it and, but I just wondering as I’m doing inpatient consults or people are doing outpatient care or you’re caring for people and you don’t have this program, let’s say you can advocate for.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. The post The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele. Michele: Thank you for having me. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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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. You sort of had a month after all of those events.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. People are coming from the south, they’re coming from the islands for their surgeries or for their rare disease consultations or their specialty follow ups for really advanced or difficult cases. And you can work at different levels of prevention.

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