GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

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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? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. So that’s great. No, no, no. It was very simple.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 10:22 We are, we were very happy to receive a grant from the ABIM American Board of Internal Medicine to develop a podcast series on the topic of uncertainty in medicine. I’m an internal medicine trained physician.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

But my co-fellow and I, we were on service for the ethics service and we had a run of consults where the clinician who placed the consults framed the consult as an issue of ambivalence. So this, I think we had three or four consults. They were all struggling from really different places with very different things.

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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. But my co-fellow and I, we were on service for the ethics service and we had a run of consults where the clinician who placed the consults framed the consult as an issue of ambivalence.

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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. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? 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. And it was a wonderful talk on mentoring.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? Alex 01:29 And we’re delighted to welcome Teva Brender, who’s a third year resident in internal medicine at UCSF. We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try.

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