GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

Seeking a comprehensive evaluation with a physician that specializes in perimenopause and menopause can provide valuable insights and support, but can be an intimidating step to take. Also bring information about preventative health screenings you have completed (mammograms, pap smears, colonoscopies, etc).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare?

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

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Screening IT Families Family 120

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. My voice is nothing special. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. I think that’s more palliative than me. I had no idea.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

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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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. Is that your grandchildren?

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. And the medical approach to these patients was very limited, but people were treated in their homes, with their families, with enormous compassion and care, which is what was really the antithesis. And that did not seem right to me. And the focus was on their comfort.

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Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. So we see a lot of problems with symptom management, a lot of family conflict. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. Kathleen 07:49 Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Allan: 35 years. Eric: 35 years.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

We cover a wide range on this topic, weaving in our own stories of loss with Thomas’s experiences, stories, and poems from years of caring for families after their loved one’s have died. Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. These kind of tropes inform the mindset that keeps people.

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IT Families Family Relationship 124

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. Who do you give informed consent to? Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. And I was.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. This is Eric W id era.

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Families Family 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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So I lived with a family there.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. And so if we think of that relationship though, as these kinds of disasters increasing, so flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat and extreme cold, there are system level things to do. Karl: Sure.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130