Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. Many of us are taught in medical school and residency the importance of patient communication on improving patient satisfaction scores, quality metrics, and professional fulfillment.

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Chronic Disease Management Community Education Chronic Disease 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Rather they’re Ill, maybe they’re aging unsuccessfully, but never really resilient. And for people with dementia and their caregivers, who both feel very devalued in the social system, support systems, their communities, the medical system. What does resilience look like for individuals with dementia? There is no cure.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Justin Clapp, who is assistant professor of anesthesia and critical care and medical ethics and health policy. He’s a linguistic and medical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania. You’re a linguistic and medical anthropologist. Gretchen: Thank you. Justin: Hello.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I was on a retreat with Guy Micco , who’s been on this podcast several times, and he was teaching a class on death while I was in medical school. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? I wonder why you did that. Frank 06:28 Well, I think a number of things. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis. I have no idea what that is.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Redwing: That’s what we do in these workshops.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93