GeriPal

JULY 10, 2025

Alex 00:19 We are delighted to welcome Mitra Jamshidian, who is a nephrologist and researcher at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital. Alex 14:17 And I just want to emphasize one more time, these were like clearly not hospitalized patients. And like the other adverse events, frankly, these are transient and reversible.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

in the need for healthcare—translating into over 500 million extra days of inpatient hospital care and more than 100 million emergency department visits across Europe by 2050. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JULY 9, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Danielle Ward, DO, MS (@minoritydoctor) JANUARY I always consider January to be the best month because it's my birthday month, but this year it came with a little extra flair as I took on the role of becoming a (short-lived) professional model for Hypothesis Scrubs. But anyway, back to the shoot.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Additional link to study with heatmaps of specific locations (hospital, nursing home, home) after initiating dialysis. -@AlexSmithMD ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. He would go home, and then three weeks later he would be back in the hospital.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. Alex, you’ve probably penned about 50 songs, which is also amazing.

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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. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control. difficile infections.

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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 can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube. You’re going to be in the hospital for a week, you’re going to feel like crap for, probably, the next two months. Problem, fix for the problem.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? And I think Andrew’s going to have good ideas about, like, why the term paradoxical and are these events paradoxical, truly? So what I remember is, is multiple hospitals and they did EEG during CPR during a cardiac arrest. Do you have like a.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. The post The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare. It can influence education systems. So I think you can see how there’s a lot of work to do among multiple sectors within healthcare, including education and training. Eric: Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. worsening prognosis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Is that the pace of everything that we do in the hospital, the pace that our trainees kind of go through, it’s fast, and there’s something totally different about standing over someone, asking all these history questions versus just pulling up a chair and just sitting there. We never mentioned caregivers. Home caregivers.

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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. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. Three hospitals all within the UW medicine system.

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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? They got sick.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. She’s a palliative care nurse educator and a writer, and she’s joining us from the great state of Hawaii. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things. Redwing: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Well, you said the key, I think you said the key word, Louise, is that one of the things, I think, that’s often missed in this discussion, and in part, some of the rush to diagnosis, is, in fact, ageist in itself, because it belies the enormous complexity and diversity and heterogeneity we could see in various events. Eric 29:15 Yeah.

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