GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. And it just really upset me internally that we were living in a society where we were letting people fall through the cracks again, again, again and again at the end of life. But it was really traumatic for me as a trainee living in Toronto.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

But there’s also studies that show they don’t because people end up being put back on the medications when they get back to their primary care or wherever they’re getting cared for out of the hospital within a certain period of time. Alex: I have two more questions before Eric gets to his magic wand.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So we did have a clinical decision support pop up that said, hey, this patient has serious illness, why don’t you go have a goals of care discussion? No difference in their primary outcome. No, no, no.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So thinking about addressing trauma as part of our management of other symptoms can be really helpful or at least taking a trauma informed lens to our medical approach. Much of my training has been in, in sort of the medical management and symptom management of a patient at the end of their life and thinking about how we do that.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. It improves symptom management. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And we were able to engage in a conversation about providing him the best care possible while he continues to engage in this therapy. That could include a robust home care plan to manage his symptoms. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And I was an internal medicine resident. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. But really was a seminal pioneering figure in the field of bioethics, palliative care, et cetera. And the VA has become really the center of excellence for interdisciplinary pain management.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105