GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. Barbara: My first reaction is word, that’s really what happened. ” And we started in this way. Barbara: You do. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. My voice is nothing special. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine.

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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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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 think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. William: Not the future, but the present. Do you worry about that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Alex 00:59 And I met all three of you and watched you do a presentation about psilocybin research at the Congress International Desens Palliative Miguel. 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. Ali John, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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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). Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. Alex: Bernie.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. It’s now available.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. I think at the age of 91, a patient should have a say, really, in terms of, hey, I can present you with some of the reasons I think we should make a switch, but what do you think? Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. He’s in Boston.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). And I also actually think it meets the quadruple aim in that as facilitators, it’s really meaningful to be present in these conversations. Hillary: Absolutely true. LJ: Totally.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. And so I think one thing we really like about not having it scripted word for word is the opportunity to kind of flex into that moment and just be present and kind of try that out.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” Juliet: I feel like I stumbled upon this number of years ago actually. ” He turned to his wife and they were laughing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. But I think there’s less nuance and understanding in the general population or even in healthcare providers, honestly. So we all went through a pandemic.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. And if you look at the increase, the steady increase since the 1960s till the present time of cremation in this culture, and cremation in this culture is only, what, 150 years old. And I got to sing Tom Waits’ Time, one of my favorites.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. And I was.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 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

APRIL 26, 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 13, 2023

It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. And we had the date, if it was present in the EHR, to provide that context for the clinician. And when we presented it to the DSMC, which Alex was a member too, but we thought it was nice. Erin: Yeah, I can go first.

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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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Peter 14:48 So it’s completely shifted.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. So ultimately, you know, we had to get buy in at. Is that right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” Also hat tip to Matthew Growdon for recommending the book.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Jim: In Virginia, we actually convened a Joint Commission on Healthcare. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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