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Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.
But what might be helpful is, I think it was 2008, in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Balfour Mount, with Pat Boston and Robin Cohen, published a paper called Healing Connections. Alex 29:23 I would love to hear, Michael, your argument for the importance of healing in palliative medicine as a concept, a notion, a goal.
Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. A message can be muddled when telling a large audience to access HPM physicians yet there are none in their area.
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. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Yep, for geriatrics? Samir: Yeah.
He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college.
They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. At American Geriatric Society in Orlando, got up during Amy Kelly’s talk, which was about dementia and said, “My mother cannot get hospice care because no hospice will take a chance on her.
We’ve mentioned buprenorphine, is that kind of the main thing that we should be thinking about in palliative care clinics and geriatric clinics for people with your use disorder? So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine? Nobody uses buprenorphine.
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In winter 2008 after President Obama was first elected, I saw a woman in clinic who said she was disappointed by the election result. I get where you’re coming from, trust me. :) Dr. Lyle Fettig is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.
First, we have James Deardorff, who’s a geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks.
I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids. I think the accountability piece is something that is more new for palliative care clinicians. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.
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Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money. And it became a terror for me.
We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. Brooke: I feel like you’re getting better year after year, so good. Alex: Hope so. So that song was already taken so we can’t do it.
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