GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? From Beth Israel and UNC.

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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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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend.

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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. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are also joined by Diah Martina, a palliative care doctor trying to grow palliative care in Indonesia, in part by starting a palliative care podcast in Indonesian (she was observing today). And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. David: Right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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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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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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. He’s in Boston. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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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.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7) 228 (82.6)

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Alex: Bernie.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Rebecca: Agreed.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. You know, I wonder how much, because it’s probably not brought up a lot in primary care settings. They took primary care practice and they randomize them to get their prevention.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Links: Papers on AI and palliative care and concerns about bias: [link] [link] Comparison of machine learning vs traditional prognostic methods based on regression: [link] Other links on the issue of AI and racial or ethnic bias: Are Robots Racist? Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist? Charlotta: Yeah.

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. That’s a pretty big palliative care study. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. Fortunately, I am at an institution where they value patient-centered care and they give us that extra time. Well, I do it personally.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most palliative care clinicians would refer back to their primary care provider and not change their hydrochlorothiazide dose or add another agent. But nonetheless, the methadone clinic system is entirely separate from the rest of the healthcare system. I mean, there is so much substance use stigma in healthcare.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. Health care system drives where you end up, which hospital, which state you live in.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. So I’m in.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

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. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. The post AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

But to come back to just nursing homes, when you think about what a nursing home is and the range of people that they take care of, you can see why it’s so tricky to think about how do we get the right services in there. Support supportive care and end of life care for as long as that might be.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

So we have done a few qualitative studies where we’ve worked with a bunch of primary care clinicians, geriatricians included and adults 76 and older to try to get language to have these kind of conversations. They were hospitalized but something comes up about mammography screening and it can be really quick.

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