GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization. We create definitions.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right? Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. Sei Lee is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Alex Lee, who’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. Nadine: I think for our geriatric friends that listen to the podcast, there’s a lot of discussion about de-intensifying management as people age. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And I think … And to me, working well speaks to what you describe as the transdisciplinary definition. And you feed the medicine in. Eric: I got another question then, feeding on that, thoughts on how we can promote leadership in palliative care social work. Barbara: I definitely agree with you. Barbara: Exactly.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I think part of the problem is for many people who are doctors, and I’m not talking to our palliative care geriatric audience, there is a sense of what it is to be a doctor is to fix things, is to save lives. Alex: A feeding tube. We’re giving some biologic information if they want it. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Rught.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Is there a formal definition, or one that you think about? Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. ” So feeding them little soundbites that they might be able to take off the tip sheet and use if they had the opportunity.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. But the point is that EMS is a big piece of this discussion and national going forward, National POLST’s Collaborative is making that definitely a priority because it is forgotten a bit in some states. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. It’s bigger.

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