GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Susan 01:36 To reflect continuing medical management versus starting dialysis, which is what Maria’s wonderful paper goes through.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I often have deep thoughts about how some people would react and behave in the current South African medical scene. When I come across arrogant GPs and medical professionals, I wonder how they would handle the stress of a full NICU/PICU/ER/Casualty. How Would you cope? Admitting, resucuitating, discharging and suffering.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Nathan: I have drawn for my entire life, but I gave up cartoons because I thought I had to during medical school and residency. And then also potentially from an educational standpoint.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So we know these patients are really, really sick.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. What do you hope would change when we’re thinking about medical training?

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Mara Schonberg is associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. We sent PCPs a copy of the educational tool they would receive. Alex: We are delighted to welcome a friend, a colleague, an ePrognosis key team player. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Mara. Glad to be here.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. Bob: Yeah. ” And one of the students raised his hand.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. What medical intervention saves health dollars, costs less than not doing it? They didn’t go to the psych ER again. Margot: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers.

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