GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. difficile that patients are exposed to and antibiotic resistance.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. I am passionately against bad care and there is a lot of bad hospice care that preys on highly vulnerable patients and is unnecessary. Eric: Great.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. However, she found herself in trouble when one of her patients, whom she treated at her hospital, died due to postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding from the birth canal after delivery). Is this a case of medical negligence?

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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. We are not a Monolith.

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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. But when I retired from government service, I left Kalakkad in 2002. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. No, they are.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Has kept me interested, the patient experience and the older adults in the community, their experience.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California. There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). So being well and also potentially periods of dying.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And she had started this practice following her mental health patients as they got older, and invariably over decades of her practice, her practice became an assisted living practice, because all of her patients ended up moving into assisted facilities.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? And I wonder if that is key in patients, people who are experiencing homelessness as well. So it could be a case manager at a shelter or an outreach worker who works in the encampment areas of Toronto. Naheed 15:53 Yeah, yeah.

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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. And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay.

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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 that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity. They can save a lot of money.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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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. Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. That’s one key interested party.

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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

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Eric 10:04 And how many Major League managers are. So basically the two best managers in baseball.

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