GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. It’s because they literally couldn’t access the information. Eric: Great.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

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. Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. Importance of Physical Examinations Physical examinations also play a significant role in diagnosing health conditions. Consulting your doctor ensures proper treatment. F (38°C) is generally regarded as indicative of illness.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. So you have the consultation. Eric 27:57 And for those, does everything just condense as far as consultation, simulation and dose? Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Thank you.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. So, for instance, I do a psychosocial screen, I do a physical screen, I do screens in all the other domains. Sometimes we all listen to the initial consult. But how about you!

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Screening IT Families Family 119

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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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

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

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And what we are seeing in our research is that, we’re working on GPT four, is volunteering information that we didn’t ask for. The information there and you limit it in that way.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And I spent the past couple years just collecting data from several hundred early palliative care patients and did a network analysis, which basically just looks at the Correlations between different constructs, whether they’re physical, emotional, social or spiritual. Eric 24:59 Have to release any embargoed information with us.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. And that’s how we connected. Gretchen: Absolutely. And I think it came out of this good space.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. But we gave it as an option. Sunita: I know.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. We really need to figure out who we are in the world and that takes your physical identity, your sexual identity, your vocational goals. Eric: Yeah. All of a sudden, I was like, wow. It’s everywhere.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. Josh: Mm-hmm. Yeah, totally. Stop being the expert.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And of note, these concepts are not mutually exclusive.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We can talk about the informal and the formal differences in expansion later. As Leonie is saying, there are some who are advocating that everyone should be informed of this as an option.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment. What might be contributing?”

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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. My approach to writing papers is really the patient cases that stick with me.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The hope is having help for you and your family and support and not being physically uncomfortable. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

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. 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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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. 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.

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Patients IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. 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. Bill 32:45 In our desire for efficiency and quality, we have abrogated continuity to epic. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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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 not just about physical symptom management.

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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

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. So if you are sick, I really encourage you, just take the time off.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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