The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. In addition to the physical wrongs done to the victims, these acts function as community stressors that harm the mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of so many others.

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Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

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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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. But I think for Liverpool, it’s not only the uncertainty, right.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. 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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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 it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And then access to those.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246