Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

Then there are all the nurses and nursing aides interrupting what little sleep you are trying to get, as well as the doctors, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners breeze into and out of your room so fast your hair stirs in the wind. His medical diagnoses were stable. He did not need to be in the hospital.

Hospital 221

Hospital Patients Nurse Practitioner IT 221

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Who do we have with us today? Devon: Thanks so much.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. So it matters.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. So if you think about 100 patients per year, that you need to have some benchmark after going into business to care for so many terminally ill patients. Alex: We have some wonderful guests.

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Families 113