GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. But I do think people can give you pretty specific information. Eric: Are you also talking to their significant others, getting other information about how things are going at night? And that’s a very miserable place to be. Thank you, Alex.

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Illness IT Clinic Medical 85

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers. ” Tamryn: I love it.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Eric 07:04 You actually created things like a curriculum for hospital medicine fellows in radiation oncology. Anish 04:13 Yeah. Thank you.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

For more information about Dr. Condrell’s Concierge Choice program, please call 877.888.5590 or email members@ccpmd.com About William Condrell, MD William Condrell, MD, is an internal medicine physician with a private medical practice called Condrell Primary Care, located in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD.

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Healthcare Internal Medicine Primary Care Appointment 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. I can get you guys that information.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? Tyler 01:43 Okay. I am not a board certified.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ” Some say, “Everyone gets a PHQ-9.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. But how about you!

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Screening IT Families Family 119

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. It’s going to feel like they’re in free fall. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it?

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. And I spent the past couple years just collecting data from several hundred early palliative care patients and did a network analysis, which basically just looks at the Correlations between different constructs, whether they’re physical, emotional, social or spiritual.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. I would say most of the time we offer CRT in the hospital. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable.

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IT Families Family Illness 83

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So yes, it’s imperfect and we recognize that, and we’re always clinically making decisions that are based on imperfect information. And we’ve been slowly building that out.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. We were often the only ones left in the hospital. But there physically wasn’t the time, and there wasn’t that energy to be able to do everything for.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away. I knew two things. The first bat.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. He might want to write his mom and he’s not physically able to write anymore. Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. I have a puppy that… Right now I’m in the dog program. I’ll write the letter for him.

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IT Families Family Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. And actually, we worked with a hospital on a project like that to demonstrate we don’t need to wear gloves for every time we touch a patient.

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