GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And nurses and other healthcare practitioners knew nothing about it. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. Anne, you’ve been going to a lot of conferences on arts and healthcare, and I was thinking back to Ab years ago. Eric: This is wonderful. But we have to.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Emily, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex 00:24 Great.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

I think the classic example is somebody who just came out of the hospital, they’re put on these new medications because they were having problems in the hospital and now they’re home and they don’t need those anymore. I think every patient I see in the hospital’s on melatonin. Cathy: Well, yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Clinic 85

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers. It has to do with movement and food in a lot of ways- Tamryn: Physical activity, nutrition, dietary changes. Nadine: No poking and prodding. Absolutely.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital.

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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. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Carmen: Thank you.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals.

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Finance Education Individual Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Is this our role?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. So this is applicable to anybody in healthcare and actually any kind of team.

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Screening IT Families Family 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Eric 01:41 Tyler, why’d you choose this song?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. Eric: And that’s what you found, that the healthcare system is perfectly designed to just deprescribe automatically after short periods of use? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Controlled substances that have an accepted medical use are classified in schedules II-V based on their relative potential for abuse and physical and psychological dependence. or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and The drug’s relative safety or ability to produce physical dependence compared to other drugs.

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Medical Physicals IT Healthcare Professional 69

GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. I was there and at University Hospitals, had a great visit. Great to see you guys.

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Patient-Centered Illness Clinic IT 81

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

I’d also think, is it reciprocity if we prioritize frontline healthcare workers or is it like that instrumental value where actually, we don’t care what they did in the past, we care that they’re able to work in the future. Govind: Yeah. Govind: So you’re right that those often go together.

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Vaccination IT Individual Healthcare 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. For a team that’s tagged with professional.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital. Then, they’ll perform a physical examination.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

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. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Have you thought about that?

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt Tyler (aka Pallidad for those on Twitter ): Matt is the Hospice and Palliative care doctor who created How To Train Your Doctor , which helps patients living with serious illness find tips on “owning” their healthcare plan on his Instagram and YouTube pages. I do think other healthcare providers need to learn about this.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. And very frail.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. So I just can’t keep going.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111