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. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

Management 117

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here. Eric 24:51 Yeah.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Relationships are usually more complicated. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Because this is where the seed of the idea started for all this music for me.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78