Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. The healthcare system in the US is not well-designed for the kind of care that is required to get to the bottom of these symptoms.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Priority Physicians

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

He thinks legalization is a mistake , characterizing THC as addictive, mentally and physically disorienting, and a gateway to the misuse of other drugs. Both THC and alcohol come with risks and perceived rewards, depending on the individual. Just because alcohol is approved for consumption doesn’t mean THC deserves approval, too.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Individual 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I don’t see those perspectives as incompatible.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. And my hypothesis is that’s because it’s no longer the individual managing their own diabetes, it’s the nursing home staff managing their diabetes. Absolutely.

Diabetes 74

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 74

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. So it’s a good question. Thank you.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Erasure often conceals the need for the collection of information that would spotlight challenges/inequities faced by Asian-Americans.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

Community 52

Community Individual Mental Health IT 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships. She discovered narrative medicine, and to her, it was about finding and retelling individual and structural stories in antiracist ways.

Community 52

Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

IT 67

IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Community 115

Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Those things do just accumulate with age. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

IT 132

IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: How about you, David?

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. What we hear is that it is more trauma informed in many contexts to have people first language.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. What would you do with the money, Eric? Alex: Yeah.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day. It’s just not.

IT 111

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And I spent the past couple years just collecting data from several hundred early palliative care patients and did a network analysis, which basically just looks at the Correlations between different constructs, whether they’re physical, emotional, social or spiritual. Eric 24:59 Have to release any embargoed information with us.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024. How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it?

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. It’s going to feel like they’re in free fall. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. 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 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. It’s such a physical act, showing just how strong doctor’s moral resolve is to save a life.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. It’s very fraught.

IT 83

IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. And those two are closely aligned.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. I think that’s a big mistake.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

I am there with individuals who are dying. He might want to write his mom and he’s not physically able to write anymore. Religion is important to me and my relationship with God has got stronger since I’ve been working here. So that touches you. Eric: Yeah, I’m feeling touched right now. I work at the VA.

IT 97

IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. It’s about instilling coping skills. But it’s a very different model. It’s about coping.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. So it’s hard to know about individual practice when I think of geriatrics or geriatric nursing because a lot of the solutions are really broad scale public health initiatives are needed, don’t you think?

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

It was information about our ACP facilitator. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. It’s a lot. Yeah, yeah.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79