GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The second is an idea that Michael and Balfour Mount were really, I think, instrumental in articulating, which is this idea that healing is possible through the course of serious illness. You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. It’s 1974. What was it?

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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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APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” There was an assessment that was focused on four spiritual domains.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

I was on a retreat with Guy Micco , who’s been on this podcast several times, and he was teaching a class on death while I was in medical school. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And dying is too big, too profound for any one model, including the medical model.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. 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, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . I thought I couldn’t finish medical school. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And you’re supposed to read the medical literature and basically I have sort of found that the medical literature are not the books that have helped me get better or smarter. Can I ask, how did it change you, how you think about talking to folks with serious illness? I’m sort of losing it. Eric: Yeah. Bob: Yeah.

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