GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Can you tell me about that?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Is this a case of medical negligence? To establish medical negligence, 4 conditions have to be satisfied and these conditions are popularly known as 4 Ds of medical negligence. Therefore, a case of medical negligence will not stand, let alone murder charges. Unsuccessful treatment cannot be labelled as medical negligence.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Part of it’s what Mike was saying, it’s accountability as a country, as a nation and as the government. This is a problem that’s existed for decades. What are they accountable for?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Julianne: It’s interesting because I think I read somewhere that a finding in science often takes about, on average, 17 years to make it into medical practice. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? She tried to extend conversations beyond what was medically, I think, necessary for the encounter.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada? Four percent. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Where are we with a lot of these medications?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

[link] Promising Practice Recognition PEACH was named a Promising Practice in equity-oriented palliative care as part of a national initiative funded by Health Canada, operated by Healthcare Excellence Canada & the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. To medical directors, chiefs, and some were really cool to talk to me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. I’m excited.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. Eric: And Susan? You assess in a whole variety of different ways.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there. And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications. Ruth: Right.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The former officials implore following the science demonstrating marijuana’s high addictive potential, its lack of accepted medical use, and the rescheduling impact on prosecuting drug trafficking organizations. and lacks an acceptable level of safety for use even under medical supervision. In other words, no rescheduling.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? I say with sarcasm, but that the government decided to subsidize home ownership and simultaneously designed a system where Black folks couldn’t be homeowners. We know what their income is. Margot: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. And I was terrified. Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. There’s disagreement within, some medical associations are against this. The post What is Death?

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

And if you look at the span of history of infectious diseases, we have always managed to control all infectious diseases because we have tools because it’s the other, it’s not yourself. But we have managed to control it. Eric: We’ll talk about the management, paxlovid, too. Infectious disease is always other.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Eric 10:04 And how many Major League managers are. So that Jackie Robinson had hoped to become a manager after he left baseball. And in his hall of Fame speech, he called for the day where there would be black managers in baseball. So basically the two best managers in baseball. Eric 10:50 Yeah. Well played.

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