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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

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. So I think consenting to a course of treatment involves that two-way conversation. Sunita: Oh, yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

Emily and colleagues have argued for a wider view of consent that continues to involve patients whose consent may fall in the gray zone – able to express some goals and values, hopes and fears – but not able to think through the complexities of a major decision. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. What is their interaction with any other information that they’ve gotten about their predicament? Gretchen: Absolutely. And I think it came out of this good space.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Brian: I mean, bottom line in clinical research or psychedelic medicines, we don’t have a lot of information on safety anyway, and we definitely don’t have it in older adults. We just don’t have that information, and people should just be careful. Alex: Because psilocybin raises heart rate and blood pressure.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Yeah.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And so Ruth highlighted one of the features of this pragmatic trial that was different than the outpatient trial was that we didn’t need to consent patients and families for participation in this study.

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