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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

My voice is nothing special. 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. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. That’s scare tactics.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Because sometimes they have much more longstanding relationships with these patients than me meeting them for a slice in time and trying to shuffle the deck, so to speak. A pill organizer, having family. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer?

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

Eric 30:52 And this also reminds me of Dani Chammas article she just published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. Sometimes you feel a special, like a kindred connection to a patient that may make you treat them differently also. Trauma informed care approach. So you ready?

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