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. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. We had tried to actually select people who didn’t have a serious illness. Marian: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Sonali: This seven versus 14 days for male UTI combines really well with the gram negative bacteriemia paper because sometimes we are faced with patients in the hospital which are disposition issue. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control.

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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. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old.

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