GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. So it’s a good question. Thank you.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast! Carmen: Thank you.

Community 115

Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Those things do just accumulate with age. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

IT 111

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. There’s this therapeutic relationship.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And I spent the past couple years just collecting data from several hundred early palliative care patients and did a network analysis, which basically just looks at the Correlations between different constructs, whether they’re physical, emotional, social or spiritual. Sorry, Demoralization and chronic pain. The flight instructions.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. Raj: 40 years later in 2018, they got together at Astana, the then capital of Kazakhstan, and brought out another resolution, which ask member countries to give control over healthcare to the community. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

Community 115

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. I would say that. Alex: You did get big press.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. And you can’t really predict how each individual might react to the same experience. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it?

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. And I think that the richness of our relationships, like I have kept involved in a lot of the people that I was working with, mostly at home, where people were dying at home. I said, well, what do you do with the patients that are here on this ward? Sue 12:23 Yeah.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Tell me about your illness.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. And maybe you’ll say the wrong thing, maybe you’ll do the wrong thing, and that’s part of human relationship as well. You had no relationship. It was surprising how much of a blow that carried to the relationship.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. It’s very fraught. It’s a lot of work.

IT 83

IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Tell me about your illness.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. What were those spiritual domains? Is that your grandchildren?

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. I think that’s a big mistake.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s such a physical act, showing just how strong doctor’s moral resolve is to save a life. And I see, I mean, I did this myself, so I’ll put myself on the hook here that I just didn’t have a sense for the longitudinal relationship that we need to build with people.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And what we mean is like they’re physical numbness or they trip over that particular symptom, but it’s that sense of detachment from living people. Because there is a lot intense discussion, I guess we were talking about this before with the stages of grief, how individualized is there is no right way or wrong way.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. ” It allows that relationship. That seemed to perform pretty well. Eric: Yeah.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

I am there with individuals who are dying. He might want to write his mom and he’s not physically able to write anymore. Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. So that touches you. Eric: Yeah, I’m feeling touched right now. I work at the VA.

IT 97

IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. It’s about instilling coping skills. But it’s a very different model. It’s about coping.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. So it’s hard to know about individual practice when I think of geriatrics or geriatric nursing because a lot of the solutions are really broad scale public health initiatives are needed, don’t you think?

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson have no relationships to disclose. It’s a lot. And Jennifer, if you go ahead.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable. Monica: Yes.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100