GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

“Within our large practice with multiple providers, it became increasingly difficult to always satisfy patients who only wanted to see me for appointments,” said Dr. Condrell. After graduating, he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Summary Transcript Summary “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Summary Transcript Summary. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Transcript. Here we go.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

She also sought input on overlapping aspects of community practice across the disciplines of internal medicine to inform ABIM’s recruitment efforts for broad physician representation in governance roles. While some of these data have been made available upon request for research purposes, ABIM has never published a consolidated report.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Eric 01:27 So we ve got a podcast on music and medicine. You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver. Alex 01:15 AHPM.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Turns out, in summary people who initiate dialysis have mildly longer lives, but spend more time in facilities, away from home. Well, I got.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We’ve also invited two amazing cardiologists, Parag Goyal and Nicole Superville, to join us about GDMT in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and in Heart Failure with preserved EF (HFpEF). He’s in Boston. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Parag 01:06 Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Summary Transcript Summary. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. Here we go.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What is making this hard for me?

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Graphic Medicine. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Graphic Novels. I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? What makes it rewarding? those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Brian: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. This field is not new. We discuss the moral distress that clinicians felt including, as one physician put it, a sense of your soul being ripped out.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? And I get to sing Bon Jovis Bad Medicine, which is such a fun song! Adam 01:12 American Journal of Palliative Medicine. Key ingredients are both potentially unsafe and low evidence.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I went into emergency medicine to act. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. And every study that we do in emergency medicine builds the field. I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. Mariah discussed her JAGS paper on applying a trauma-informed approach to home visits. Mariah, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Mariah 00:29 Glad to be here. Kate, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Have any of you watched the movie The Notebook ? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (Im a complete softie) I remember thinking, Oh no! This will give people false hope! That their loved one is in there. Andrew 00:42 Hey, everyone.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. Some highlights from our conversation: The role of art in humanizing the dying process. Lingsheng, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From just the abstracts we had so many questions. We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Which is it? Whos got the right of it? We’ll see. Have to see.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do you have with us today? Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us. We love it when our guests suggest things.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Do you know how these agencies fit in with programs like Meals-on-Wheels or other nutritional support programs? Susan: It is my anthem.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

What about ambivalence on the part of the provider? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer have no relationships to disclose. Summary Transcript Summary Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. Designation University of California, San Francisco, designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75

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GeriPal

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. . Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Despite your background, Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Mike: It was really then it was when I was a internal medicine resident that I heard a Mary Oliver poem, and it really connected to where I was at. To let it go. . AlexSmithMD .

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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. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. You got it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jasmine, is it you?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves?

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Monica Gandhi is a professor of medicine and associate division chief of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF & San Francisco General Hospital. NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.

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