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.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 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. These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. Don’t worry; HIPAA laws protect your privacy and medical information. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have seen a patient and discovered additional diagnoses after they had been to urgent care.

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Primary Care Board-Certified GP Family Physician 52

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. And bringing more palliative care to the living with serious illness instead of dying from serious illness population.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

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 this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. Alex: Mm-hmm. The patient is crying in front of you.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

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.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. He was also the one who we have to thank for suggesting this podcast!

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 128

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

I put a lot more information about Dr. Groopman and how to contact her in the show notes. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. But now I’m going to pass the mic. Take it away, Emily.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. We did do another LGBT Care for Older Adults in Serious Illness Population with Carrie Kendrian and Angela Primbos.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So there are three primary domains.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. 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.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. How did you react? This is Eric Widera. Eric: Yeah.

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Patients IT Families Family 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Try to really understand what’s happening.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 112

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. I think this is a topic we don’t talk about as much in the context of serious illness. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And the government can do something about that?!?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

If you or someone you love is suffering, I hope that this information will help you find the resources you need to find recovery. Less than 6% of people who have an eating disorder are considered "underweight," and those who live in larger bodies are significantly less likely to be diagnosed and access proper treatment.

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Mental Health Physicals DO Family Medicine 52

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. It was information about our ACP facilitator. So we sent that to everyone 65 and older with upcoming visits, though we were tracking on our side the people who had diagnoses and things.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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