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 Chronic Disease Education 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. We hope you enjoy this episode. I did it before and this guy, he was 85, but he was climbing Mount Everest.”

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Alex 00:08 UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine are looking to build on their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the associate chief of research position and for full time physician faculty to join them in the in-patient and out-patient settings. I wonder why you did that. Where can they go?

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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. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer, welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. As Redwing’s poem says, “why not live as long as possible?” . AlexSmithMD

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93