GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. While everyone says we should be doing this to the best science available, every hospital has a different interpretation of that. ” Some say, “Everyone gets a PHQ-9.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. and consulting for Papa Health.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10? Devon: Yes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. Sammy: Oh, okay.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. I just love her conclusion because what she realizes is when you’re first diagnosed… This is research. That’s what normal means when you’re first diagnosed, wanting to go back to before the illness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. How are we gonna do that if he leaves the hospital?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. And maybe you’ll say the wrong thing, maybe you’ll do the wrong thing, and that’s part of human relationship as well. You had no relationship. It was surprising how much of a blow that carried to the relationship.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. So I’m actually interested in also trying to help women who’ve been diagnosed figure out what to do too. They have so much going on.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? Ramona: Glomerular Filtration Raterate. I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. Much more about relationships has been my experience. And so we have to teach clinicians the art of relationship. And, like, you try to find a caregiver’s name in a hospital chart, you just can’t.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. So just using in that context of a trusted kind of clinician-patient relationship and seeing how we can better improve shared decision-making.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Now, you can’t fix a broken relationship by putting it in this box or that box. And I can’t imagine anyone working in an end of life situation, in hospital palliative care situations. You know, but I do go in my own thinking and my own narratives of life and my own relationships with my children.

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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. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. They had no idea.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Despite your background, Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. So my only question is what my relationship will be to suffering. Mike: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults. People are living with HIV into advanced ages.

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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. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Before the primary care visit.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. We do have, like, a relatively operable consensus around this where, you know, it’s working in the hospitals.

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