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. I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. I knew I wanted to do palliative medicine pretty early Even in medical school. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. Alex 00:53 And we’re delighted to welcome Tyler Jorgensen, who’s a palliative care doc, emergency medicine doc, at the University of Texas, Austin. Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver. Alex 01:15 AHPM.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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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. . Brian: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Susan 01:36 To reflect continuing medical management versus starting dialysis, which is what Maria’s wonderful paper goes through.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

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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. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Nathan: I have drawn for my entire life, but I gave up cartoons because I thought I had to during medical school and residency. But if you look at my lecture notes from medical school, it’s just plastered with cartoons and doodles. Like, oh no, I said it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And so this term was developed by our group to capture either non traditional therapies or really conventional medical therapies that patients may be pursuing with little hope of reaching a goal of care and significant risk. Eric 04:02 Jill, you practice alternative and integrated medicine. Did I say that correctly? Eric 09:30 Okay.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. And so for me, I started off at one particular institution for medical school and went to another and noticed quite a few differences.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? They do the homework they talk about then with their doctor or their healthcare provider. It’s a lot easier to look in the medical record and see what healthcare utilization looked like at the end of life.

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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. Annals of Internal Medicine.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? Lingsheng, welcome back to GeriPal. Wendy, I have.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

This is, you know, has to do with our personal relationship. And there’s like the emphasis on the relational component and what that means in terms of the relationship between the caregiver and the patient and the person. Did you have a different medication? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. And then, the system responds in turn.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Mike: It was really then it was when I was a internal medicine resident that I heard a Mary Oliver poem, and it really connected to where I was at. Mike: Yeah. Thank you. Mike and I go actually way back.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer have no relationships to disclose. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Josh: Thank you, you all.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Bryanna Moore, who is a philosopher and bioethicist, and she’s at the University of Texas Medical Branch where she also directs the clinical Ethics Fellowship.

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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. . I thought I couldn’t finish medical school. And I was an internal medicine resident.

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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. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And you’re supposed to read the medical literature and basically I have sort of found that the medical literature are not the books that have helped me get better or smarter. So it’s all about what are the books outside of medicine that really help you be better at your job? .” I’m sort of losing it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Is that right?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Jenny, welcome back to GeriPal. Jenny 01:27 Thanks. Good to be here. Dave 08:47 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. But this was a family practice study where they randomized 500 healthcare providers to wear surgical masks in routine interactions, 500 to not wear masks, no difference in like anyone getting colds or anything. Our World in Data COVID graphs.

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