GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No No it’s not just the French version of Aducanumab). . In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!)

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Narrative medicine?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. A “Three-Stage Protocol” for Serious Illness Conversations: Reframing Communication in Real Time Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Simple, right?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

However, if we could make it work, it would really be a game-changer — from saving terminally ill patients to solving one of the main problems of interstellar travels. However, if we could make it work, it would really be a game-changer — from saving terminally ill patients to solving one of the main problems of interstellar travels.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. link] ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Eric 02:09 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! If you read just one, read Palliative Medicine – Just Another Specialty ?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. How did you react? Afterwards, I thought there must be a better way. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. We’re going to define what that is and how it applies to the work that we do. Amber: I do. You know what?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The instructor, Fran Cook , gave all the students a survey without explanation. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I’ll have a more professional version on the audio- only versuib. Some highlights from our conversation: The role of art in humanizing the dying process. The rules are really quite simple: Find another person. Sit down and draw each other for only one minute. We invite you to post your drawings on twitter and tag us @GeriPalBlog!

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. First, the lyrics, that’s the main reason why I chose it. The theme is death. Lexy: JPSM.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Patient Poets: Illness from the Inside Out. So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. I think it’s titled Patient Poets Illness. Marilyn: Patient Poets: Illness From Inside Out. Alex: Patient Poets: Illness From Inside Out.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

But before we go into all of that, I think, Bill, you have a song request for Alex. Bill 01:52 I do. Bill 01:53 Alex asked me for a song that was resonating in my head at the time, and it would be Guy Clark’s song, T he Cape. Eric 02:01 Why guy Clark’s the Cape? Bill 02:03 Oh, it’s a long story. I’ll make sure. Here we go.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

How do you find time to write and also be doctors and academic professors? Revisions and working with editors Writing an Op Ed – how to start, what to write, where to send it TheOpEdProject as a resource for learning more We look forward to the books and op-eds our listeners will write! Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Rosanne.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. We discussed the nature of pain, what makes chronic pain different from acute pain, what’s the difference between proprioception, pain, and suffering, and so much more. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” moment – about yourself and the ways you interact with others. That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” So I came across this book and found it very helpful.

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