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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. Clinician burnout and its impact on healthcare delivery: A narrative review. Healthcare (Basel).

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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. Tell me about your illness.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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. So that’s a title of a publication in qualitative health research. Unmute, Thor.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Is there a true relationship with that? This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. So, I don’t see a huge value of putting her down as a durable power of attorney for healthcare. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair?

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. Eric: Well, Terri and Emmy, thank you for joining on this podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. And I feel like a lot of this is really, you know, moving away from another podcast we did is industrialization of healthcare and really focusing on the individual that’s in front of you. Noelle Marie 01:15 I do.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. Even if you haven’t completed a healthcare proxy, durable training for healthcare, most states say here’s a list of people who can make that decision in order. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. And the other thing is that verbatim question for research, that’s fine, but that might not be the way to enter into a spiritual relationship with a patient with that kind of question.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Eric 21:46 So this study showed that in people with chronic critical illness, having palliative care lead one and a half sessions in an ICU around prognosis and goals. Is this superior to that?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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