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

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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A “Three-Stage Protocol” for Serious Illness Conversations: Reframing Communication in Real Time Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. What proportion of time do surrogates of seriously ill patients in the ICU rely solely on the doctor’s prognosis? Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more?

Families 144

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 144

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. Lauren: Yeah. That’s just one hypothesis. Lauren: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And one of his patients was in the ICU, critically ill and incapacitated, and her husband was at her bedside and he was sitting and talking about decisions.

Patient-Centered 111

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. But everybody might, when I was a chaplain educator, I taught medical students as summer chaplain interns because everyone needs to know how to be able to recognize spiritual distress. Alex, is it okay if I ask?

IT 99

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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

IT 110

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And she couldn’t control her husband’s illness the way it was heading towards his death.

Patients 109

Patients IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. And I’m only hoping the student who was with me can remember what the hell it was. But I was focused on his very ill wife. That helps. So I don’t remember it. Eric: Yeah.

IT 105

IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. And this, to my surprise, was one of the one of the most time consuming and frequent things that I had had to do as a resident. Sometimes it is that simple.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105