Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

” “Whether you’re the call center agent, the receptionist, [or] the lab tech, you participate and you provide the input into innovation,” said Dr. Nguyen. The Southern California Permanente Medical Group is one of the largest medical groups in the nation with more than 8,800 physicians providing care for over 4.8

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Medical 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. We need to learn from them that they have moved on, so how do we not dwell in the past negative events? Anne: Is there a movement?

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. So you could start that in the emergency department if the symptoms are severe enough, provided that they have primary doctor follow ups.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. So this is a podcast going at the geriatricians and palliative care providers. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. Including them in providing more history and in discussions about testing and treatment plans for their parent benefits not only their parent, but also myself and my team. We sat the back up for her to be more comfortable.

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ER Family Families Transportation 100

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. And then you get the call from the family, they can’t sleep at night. I personally think there is no excuse for us not to be providing in getting CBTI for our patients. And that’s a very miserable place to be. singing) Eric: Wonderful.

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Illness IT Medical Clinic 85

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You can continue to use your insurance for medications and for labs as well.

Family Medicine 40

Family Medicine DO Families Family 40

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Remember that more deeply understanding your patients can provide meaning! Anti-Asian hate crime events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

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. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Their job was done.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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Medical Student DO Family Medicine Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

Family 93

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. And it was like the lights came on. This guy came alive.

IT 97

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. So there’s an event or a series of events. So there’s an event or a series of events. Kate 04:53 As well as how they cope with that event.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function. But you’re right, there has been a shift in policy to incentivize patients and providers to choose home therapies.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sunita: Honestly, I’d be happy to provide the vocals. 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. So I requested Alex to play Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron. Maybe, no promises, maybe.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. 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. We just hired a nurse.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. What can we do next to help that colleague?

IT 111

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If we can be a little bit more holistic and think through what are the medicines that are going to provide the greatest bang for your buck and get rid of the stuff that probably isn’t going to do anything. A pill organizer, having family. They may have a long relationship with that cardiologist, so it requires some collaboration.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wonder if you could say a little bit more about the meta Institute in particular and what it is that clinicians today can do to learn, to be more present and learn about the need to be thoughtful and compassionate in the care that they provide people with serious illness. Much more about relationships has been my experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

And I think that’s what’s important for families to know because everyone wants to stop this disease and roll back the clock to make their loved one better. But all of this has to be understood by the patient and the families and so that they’re comfortable of that. Remember, family member. It’s coherent.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. That’s a difficult decision to make, and providing these estimates can help clinicians and patients with that type of shared decision-making. I don’t need to get into much of the details.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. Ashwin Kotwal reports receiving a research grant from Humana Inc. and consulting for Papa Health. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Consulting 121

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 121

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. Jennifer 20:48 We don’t, you know, our palliative care team here in the outpatient setting is only physicians and advanced practice providers. So, for example, the intervention visits had to be delivered by a physician or advanced practice provider.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

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. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters?

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

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.

Healthcare Professional 102

Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. And just like cultural background, there are some individuals and families that would really never have their loved one enter a nursing home, choosing instead to take care of them.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. So if you already have a condition, you might be able to prevent events. So I lived with a family there. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. So it’s never too late.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. AlexSmithMD .

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93