Illness Mental Health Patient-Centered Relationship 
Center for Family Medicine
APRIL 21, 2025
Addressing sleep disorders is essential to long-term health and vitality. Types of sleep disorders Poor sleep is possible from an underlying illness or disorder. Sleep apnea leads to poor sleep quality and potential health hazards like cardiovascular disease. Sleep apnea, for instance, is the most common sleep disruptor.
GeriPal
JULY 27, 2023
For those with serious illness, sleep problems and insomnia are all too common. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Insomnia sucks. Chronic insomnia sucks even more. Brienne: Yeah.
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The Clinical Problem Solvers
AUGUST 25, 2020
Camara Phyllis Jones , is credited for creating the framework many healthcare professionals and researchers use to think about systemic racism’s impacts on Black health. It impacts the health of our colleagues who constantly have to witness this injustice play on television, often without consequence. N Engl J Med. Gilbert, Kevin A.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me.
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.
GeriPal
AUGUST 11, 2022
We talk with Susan about how far the field has come, from early days when the attending physician would decide which patients were DNR and place a black “no code” dot in the chart. – Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. AlexSmithMD . Transcript.
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