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

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. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. So it’s a good question. Thank you. That is not why I went into medicine.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

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. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

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. But watch out! Who will emerge victorious?

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

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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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. But how about you!

Screening 119

Screening IT Families Family 119

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.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

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. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Jace 30:29 For a long caregiver challenges and not, you know, having to go into spaces that are heavily like hetero and cis normative in terms of how they provide services, how they navigate relationships.

Individual 81

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

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

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. Eric: Yeah. It’s very fraught. It’s everywhere.

IT 83

IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. So there’s some concern, yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. I knew two things.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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 about establishing a relationship and rapport.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Eric 33:05 Well, let me ask you this.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And I chose one in particular experience to write about, a trans woman who I call Jamie in the piece, who I had known prior to the pandemic who I was treating as a palliative care consultant for her cancer related pain. There were legal issues so we had to take out some of the information. She was homeless. Eric: Yeah.

Healthcare Professional 102

Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102