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. It flows very well. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Tell me about your illness.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. So that’s a title of a publication in qualitative health research.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. by Kearney. I promise its short. Whats in a name?

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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.

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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. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them.

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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. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Try to really understand what’s happening. Amber: Norm is, yeah.

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