GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss. Relationships are usually more complicated. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. So it, it really goes any direction.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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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. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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MAY 18, 2023

I feel like geriatricians have a, maybe it’s more of a hate/hate relationship with NSAIDs right now. Ruining the patient doctor relationship because you get into a fight about what anti-coagulants should be on. But it doesn’t mean avoid it in all situations. In many situations it might be a great choice.

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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. . Like, oh no, I said it.

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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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? The general clinic is called the Internal Medicine Recovery Engagement Program, and our clinic is the Palliative Recovery engagement Program, or PrEP.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. They may have a long relationship with that cardiologist, so it requires some collaboration.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? They do the homework they talk about then with their doctor or their healthcare provider. It’s a lot easier to look in the medical record and see what healthcare utilization looked like at the end of life. Yael 21:10 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And that was the last time that he’d been seen by our healthcare system. And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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MAY 29, 2025

This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. And there’s like the emphasis on the relational component and what that means in terms of the relationship between the caregiver and the patient and the person. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Like, you’re really feeling yourself today.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. But I think there’s less nuance and understanding in the general population or even in healthcare providers, honestly. Annals of Internal Medicine.

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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. Much more about relationships has been my experience. And so we have to teach clinicians the art of relationship.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. It’s a, it’s a, it’s a past self directing healthcare for a future self. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. But it’s a risk, right? Eric 48:23 Yeah, great.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common. Do I have access to good food?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer have no relationships to disclose. Mary: And I found that’s an area that’s lacking honestly for clinical ethics education of how do you respond when situations like that come up.

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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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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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Is that right?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Eric 19:11 Yeah, I love that, too, because I always think about healthcare systems, too. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. And, Liz, this is why I really liked your paper.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” And it’s about her relationship to her therapist at the same time, she’s also a therapist, so it’s about the people that she saw in therapy. Bob: So the fellows who are doing a master’s in medical education will read all the medical education book. I’m sort of losing it. 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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