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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. My voice is nothing special. Eric 01:41 Tyler, why’d you choose this song?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? By diagnosis? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. Pediatr Rev. doi: 10.1542/pir.2014-0122.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. 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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being. Gordon 41:13 The hospital is also on fire. What should I say? So chat GPT, excellent.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals. So I go between.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? And then for Hsien and for Sammy, this is a real social movement that you’re trying to… The movement upstream, getting people to consider what are the serious issues at the time of diagnosis with serious illness.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. 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.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. 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. Eric 25:08 Super special. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? What was I doing?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. It included the patient family agenda setting checklist. Wait, how is that actually defined?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. Doctors who agree to work for the armed forces receive special benefits. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old.

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