GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. With their regular providers? And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. In their communities?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. There’s this therapeutic relationship.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Relationships are usually more complicated. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison have no relationships to disclose. I rely on recorded music for my patients mostly, and I think that’s based on my singing.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain.

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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. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. And so I thought it was appropriate. Alex 01:55 Yeah, great choice.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. I’m sure we all have the same issue. Alex: Okay.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? How do they deal with professional barriers and the barrage of comments? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Sammy: Yeah?

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. But I mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. Do you worry about that?

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Eric 01:44 And we’re going to be talking about the roots of palliative care, and I think importantly, not just looking back, but what does that mean for our future as hospice and palliative care providers. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. Justin 01:59 Absolutely. It’s I Got a Name by Jim Croce.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it? Some of them also had psychiatric or psychosocial oncology providers as well. James 01:34 Yeah, right on.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. If we can be a little bit more holistic and think through what are the medicines that are going to provide the greatest bang for your buck and get rid of the stuff that probably isn’t going to do anything. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Because just like in the bedside space, if you are using humor in a way that builds bonds and relationships with the patient can be really beautiful, and normalizing. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Eric: Karen.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

It is an indicator that to provide the best care, we need to go deeper into trying to understand what the dynamics are there. The post Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. And I wonder what you think about that. Are they using drugs?

Illness 109

Illness IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. It feels special to me. The first guest is Liz Salmi. Liz: That’s right. Anne: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? I mean, you know, we’re trying to both honor what, what the surrogate believes is the, the patient’s preference, which we do all the time with all kinds of other medical interventions and provide comfort in a humane way.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And ed imbued in me the concept that physicians are like lifeguards.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? The Inflation Reduction Act provides enormous tax benefits to people who get heat pumps or put solar on their roofs.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. Eric: So not from the patient perspective or family, but from the provider perspective?

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

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. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. This is Eric W id era.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And I became more and more involved in it, including becoming involved in research and developing some of the programs initially to provide care for people with both drug use and HIV related problems, women with HIV vulnerable populations.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

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. . Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Very, very few centers are providing those services. Alex: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 106

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? So my only question is what my relationship will be to suffering.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. This is what I do here.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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