GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

We’ve invited two members who helped update the criteria including Todd Semla and Mike Steinman. We discuss a little history of the Beers criteria, including the original Beers Criteria that was published by the late Dr. Mark Beers, and how it has evolved over the last three decades. Alex: We’re having Beers. We’ll learn about that.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. I really don’t know life at all.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Eric: We got a ton to talk about with you, Kate, about palliative care research into it. Also the daughter of Tim Quill, well known in palliative care. How did you get interested in palliative care research and the stuff that you’re doing right now? I was always critical care bound since medical school. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Today we focus on an intervention , published in JAMA, that gave emergency clinicians basic palliative care knowledge, training, and skills. They got a decision support tool that identified hospice patients or those who might benefit from a goals of care discussion.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Maybe I can turn to both of you about how you got interested in thinking about decision-making and surgical care for those with dementia. Really, a smart and caring woman. So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Bill 01:52 I do.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. .” Bob: I’ll give it a try.

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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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Before we do, I think, Joe, you have a song request for Alex. Joe: I do. I would like to hear Space Oddity and it’s because I can’t imagine being more lonely and isolated than being in a tin can orbiting around the earth by myself and just how comforting it is even to hear that scratchy little voice from ground control. Joe: Right.

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