GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Eric 01:41 Tyler, why’d you choose this song?

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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

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Areej. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals. You still want to go to the hospital if you get sick?

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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

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? I was trained in the hospital where it started, and we were trained to be bedside nurses. Ive got a name.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. A pill organizer, having family.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. And I met with his family over Zoom, which was how many of us had to meet with families during that time. We were doing a lot of this without a whole lot of guidance, as is common, I think, from family, because all they knew was who he was. Sunita: Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. 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. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So whether it’s an encounter with a patient or whether it’s a family meeting or a clinical practice meeting or a feedback session with a fellow, the idea that we have both the ability to be very full and open and also selective and disciplined about how it is that we. We were often the only ones left in the hospital.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. worsening prognosis.

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Mere Mortal MD

MARCH 22, 2025

Nine months later, after lots of rest, sleeping in a recliner, physical therapy, and medications, his back miraculously healed without needing surgery. You’re not going to work in a hospital.” Hopefully the ED physician at the hospital there could at least stitch up a gash in my husband’s arm, if it ever came to that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. I don’t need to get into much of the details.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 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. Jennifer, welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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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. As we age, our body’s capacity to adapt to things becomes a little more challenge. They can save a lot of money.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. And we have some great guests.

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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. So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. Turns out, it’s maybe not. And we don’t talk about it as much.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? They got sick.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. There’s a term called karoshi.

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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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