GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. by Kearney. I promise its short. Whats in a name?

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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. Lauren: Yeah. That’s just one hypothesis. Lauren: Yeah.

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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. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them.

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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. And one of his patients was in the ICU, critically ill and incapacitated, and her husband was at her bedside and he was sitting and talking about decisions.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And finally, Wendy offers a drawing lesson and ONE-MINUTE drawing assignment to help us (and our listeners) be more present and connect with one another. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? First you have to be a volunteer and see what it’s like to be present at the bedside.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. So that’s the time then to call in a chaplain for those deeper dives into the spiritual components.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When I spoke to physicians who had been practicing back then, it seemed that the sort of modern cohort of medical students and residents and young physicians were facing a different set of challenges, a unique set of challeng challenges. So that’s one difference. It’s usually the show is the stories alone.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. And it was a wonderful talk on mentoring.

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