GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . which advocates for an updated, wait for it… equianalgesic table! . Drew: Yeah.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. Anish 00:24 Thanks so much for having me. Alex 00:26 And we’re delighted to welcome Emily Martin, who is a palliative care doc at UCLA. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Alex: We are honored to be joined by Barbara Jones, who is professor and associate dean for Health Affairs at the School of Social Work at UT Austin and chair of the Department of Health Social Work at Dell Medical School. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Is that right?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Jerry, welcome to GeriPal. Jerry: Great to be here.

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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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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. There is no easy or "correct" answer in these situations.

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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. First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Simple, right? Eric: Yeah?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

The audience doesn’t know what happens next, and whether he can survive the procedure, not to speak about living in a society where every one of his friends and relatives is dead, and people live a completely different way of life than he was used to. The brief history of cryonics That’s precisely the basic idea of cryonics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). But does this drug really live up to the hype? Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. Eric 02:09 Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. All the time. ;).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Keri put it in the podcast, we must go beyond “a hammer and a nail” philosophy to approaching anger by developing a toolkit for anger that is vast and varied. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Is that you Dani? Dani: It is me. laughter] Alex: Not at all.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Eric: Lucky Strike.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. We’re going to define what that is and how it applies to the work that we do.

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. The theme is death. Lexy: JPSM.

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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

MARCH 31, 2022

Marilyn is joined by Guy Micco to talk about why poetry is important in general, why it’s important in medical or nursing education, and why it’s important for people who care for older adults. So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. Guy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome you to the GeriPal Podcast, Julien Cobert, who is an intensivist and aging researcher GeriPal Podcast, Julien. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about aging in the ICU. Chris Cornell is one of my favorite musicians. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Bill 00:53 Thank you, Alex. Eric 00:54 So we have a really interesting and potentially challenging podcast today. But before we go into all of that, I think, Bill, you have a song request for Alex.

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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

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. .” Bob: I’ll give it a try.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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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