The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. So there’s an event or a series of events. So there’s an event or a series of events. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. I mean, in other work, hard work environments as well.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I think when COVID started, I was in a number of meetings about how we were going to think about CPR from this point forward, given that it was would really expose healthcare workers to easy transmission of this virus that we didn’t fully understand yet. So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. A pill organizer, having family. Another study looking at the benefits of physical rehabilitation in patients with HFpEF. So I think more to come. Alex 45:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? What’s a disruptive event?

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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. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. She entertained her family. We can make this better.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So the two examples that I would talk about are treatment for osteoporosis that hinges on the 10 year risk of fracture, and then treatment for hyperlipidemia that hinges on predicted 10 year cardiovascular events. So the idea here is that generally the risks of bad things, like side effects, are pretty constant throughout the population.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Ruth: Yeah. Ruth: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Ken 21:39 Well, yes.

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