GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. So pointing people in the right direction sounds like an easy task, but it’s actually very hard as we begin to really segment our services and get real specialized in what we do.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We make a diagnosis. If you’re going to be talking to the brand new intern on the service, or the chief executive of the hospital, are there some themes or similarities to how you’d approach that in the mentoring, sorry, not the mentoring, the coaching process? It’s so different from therapy. Beth: Yeah. Greg: Hmm.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Regardless of the severity of a patient's illness and diagnosis, time and again I am now witnessing an unsettling fear in their eyes, conveying a belief that somehow Covid-19 is playing a part in their (lack of) well-being. They are scared. And the truth is, I am not sure what to think at this point.

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Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 5, 2025

I even thought at one point that I would want to become an oncologist, a physician that specializes in taking care of patients with cancer. I recently was talking to one of my patients who was admitted to the rehabilitation hospital with an incurable form of brain cancer. We need cellular apoptosis to survive and thrive.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy. What is in a clinic?

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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

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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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. Like, it’s like a hospital. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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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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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

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Because people, they go to the hospital, then they revoke.

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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. Gordon 41:13 The hospital is also on fire. I want you to be able to be in the hospital and be with your loved one. What should I say? So you got to be better than AI. I heard that.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” Juliet: Lund, yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And when I think about some of the … There was actually a meta-analysis looking at specialized palliative care studies, only half of the 10 randomized control studies had a social worker as part of that team. What does this diagnosis mean to you? Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

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. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. Sammy: Oh, okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

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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 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. And in some ways I have this special responsibility in part, along with others, to pass those teachings along to a new generation who may never get to talk to him in the middle of a day on a landline.

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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.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Like Alex said, it’s not just about the nortriptyline and the new opioid receptors, that there’s something else that makes the work we do special.

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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. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. He created fee for service, special fee for depression.

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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

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Lori Freedman’s book (forthcoming) – Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals. Lisa Harris piece mentioned on podcast.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.

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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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