GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. I was there and at University Hospitals, had a great visit. Great to see you guys.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? I see them both inpatient and outpatient.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. If they need an acute hospitalization, they would be hospitalized in a hospital that we contract with. Michele: So historically we did do dialysis here. They suffered from it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. And I know one of the topics I did was polypharmacy then.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Most of our population has trauma.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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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. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. And that’s critical.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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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. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Eric 00:04 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Don, welcome to GeriPal.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. This would present a valuable opportunity for doctors and their families to learn French. Canada fits Americans comfortably.

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