GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Many were community hospitals.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. . Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Nathan: Annals.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. Was the clinician working frontline in those community hospitals? hospice use).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. How are we gonna do that if he leaves the hospital?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. He hated being in the hospital, but he was getting all of these infections that basically were putting him in the hospital all the time.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. So kind of using that as a springboard to identify people and then I think taking advantage of the new CMS measure, the age friendly hospital measure. And ideally at other times too. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. First is we had a podcast recently about gabapentin, and I know we’d mentioned Mike’s prior study in Annals of Internal Medicine on off-label use of gabapentin. Eric: I think it was under the renal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. Alex 27:57 Who are hospitalized, for example?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Eric 30:52 And this also reminds me of Dani Chammas article she just published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. Eric 19:59 And I gotta say, it also just reminds me of the entire idea of, like, slow medicine, too. Home caregivers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Oh, is emeritus professor at UCSF, internal medicine. Another was sent to me when I was very sick in the hospital by a patient of mine. The post Poetry about Aging: Marilyn McEntyre and Guy Micco appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. So Guy go on.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And they would inject it back into him to treat his cancer for the low cost of $400 a treatment.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

So what I remember is, is multiple hospitals and they did EEG during CPR during a cardiac arrest. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. So Brian wrote this article in JAMA Internal Medicine arguing that we should take the word intensive out of intensive care units. The post Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And that’s critical. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. We just directly walked out of the hospital and we were like, we’ve got to write about ambivalence, what is going on here? Jenny: Good to be here. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome O. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. We just directly walked out of the hospital and we were like, we’ve got to write about ambivalence, what is going on here? Jenny: Good to be here. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome O. Eric: Great.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And I was an internal medicine resident. You can have all these sort ideas about nociception pain suffering, but when you see patients in the hospital, it’s never one thing. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Wait, how is that actually defined?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. And we have some great guests.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Then it really wasn’t until I got into medicine, medical school and residency, that I discovered poetry per se, and a mentor commented, I think to a number of us on this podcast, Steve McKee introduced me to poetry. Thank you for all of our listeners for your support and ArchStone Foundation for your continued support of the podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And guess what?

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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