GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. Great to be here. But before we do, we always have a song request.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. We also discuss (without trying to get too wonky!) This is Eric Widera.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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. I’m originally an ER physician. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a. And we’re.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

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.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77