GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Nathan: I do. Nathan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Look for Jenny to potentially appear on the show Americas Got Talent (no lie). AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

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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. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. What is sludge? Where was it?

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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. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? How does integrative medicine fit in with this? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We also briefly mention Susan Wong’s terrific studies that found a disconnect between older adults with renal failure’s expressed values, focused on comfort, and their advance care planning and end-of-life care received, which focused on life extension; and another study that found quality of life was sustained until late in the illness course.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. It was very simple. Now it was a pragmatic trial.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So thinking about, you know, if you are in sort of a home where you’re more likely to Experience childhood abuse that may potentially limit your education trajectory and your ability to attend school. And I think as an educator it’s been really important in particular to focus on that final, that last one.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. And another was just my friend Bimla Schwartz, who’s now chief of General medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. They wanted you to be respectful of their cultural beliefs and their, you know, faith beliefs that were driving their health and illness. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Marilyn is joined by Guy Micco to talk about why poetry is important in general, why it’s important in medical or nursing education, and why it’s important for people who care for older adults. And maybe, just maybe, we convince that poetry skeptic Eric Widera that there is a place for poetry in medicine after all. AlexSmithMD.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. 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. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

APRIL 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

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. Can I ask, how did it change you, how you think about talking to folks with serious illness? Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Jenny, welcome back to GeriPal. Jenny 01:27 Thanks. Good to be here.

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