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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

Our Consulting Services offer customized strategies for group practices, health systems, and medical societies ready to accelerate their impact and lead the way in climate-smart care. Visit our website to explore membership options, start a Practice Management program, or speak with us about our Consulting Services. Cavanagh, D.,

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Katie, before we jump into the topic of buprenorphine in serious illness, what’s the song request?

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. So you have the consultation. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. Like, is it just boom?

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. 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. It flows very well. Josh: Mm-hmm.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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. What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color. Tell me about your illness.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

The second is an idea that Michael and Balfour Mount were really, I think, instrumental in articulating, which is this idea that healing is possible through the course of serious illness. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. by Kearney. It’s 1974.

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