GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. In their communities?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Jace 30:29 For a long caregiver challenges and not, you know, having to go into spaces that are heavily like hetero and cis normative in terms of how they provide services, how they navigate relationships.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

We delighted to be joined by Brian Block, pulmonary/critical care faculty at UCSF and frequent guest host on GeriPal…and also nephew to Susan. – Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. Psychiatric training is about major mental illness. AlexSmithMD . Links: – PDIA Faculty Scholars Program. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Is there a true relationship with that? Charlotta: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. People with.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

He looked very ill. An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. We do conversations on goals of care and advanced care planning as well.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. What words to use?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins. Think chemo. What counts as potentially unsafe?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. No difference in their primary outcome. I went into emergency medicine to act.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And this is, I’m going to go a little wonky just for a second because like looking at the 11 things that you looked at for trauma events, some seem like pretty universal trauma events, like having a life threatening illness, a child of yours who died being physically abused when you were young. Which may not be necessarily traumatizing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. I think this is a topic we don’t talk about as much in the context of serious illness. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse.

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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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Do we need specialists who care for people living with HIV, whether they’re geriatrics specialists or palliative care specialists? Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. Haider: That was a great story.

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