GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo. Alex 13:34 MSTAR medical students in aging research apply now.

Specialization 119

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. Eric: Drew, what I’m also hearing from you though in your post is maybe there’s something different about people doing primary palliative care and pain management versus specialty palliative care.

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain. There really was very little. And was that okay?

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. 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. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

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. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

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. I don’t manage anybody, but I get to sit in on some leadership meetings and make my voice heard. I hear more and more places have chief wellness officers.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110