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

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It’s now available.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So, like, I don’t.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

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

JULY 13, 2023

It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. Erin: Yeah, I can go first. Well, I’m sure Ruth and Bob have lots to say about this too.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible. I had a supportive spouse.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

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. ” Basically you had practitioners, physicians, nurse practitioners that normally would be there.

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Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136