GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. This can be disheartening, leading to a cycle of stricter diets, increased frustration, and worse physical and mental health. If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

For those with serious illness, sleep problems and insomnia are all too common. Eric: And anything else from the history or the physical that’s going to help you around the differential of the sleep problem? Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. And so pursued, in addition to geriatric certification. Cathy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Alex 03:31 That was fun.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. 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. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

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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Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening 67

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. 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. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity.

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