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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” He is the author of six collections of poems and six books of essays, and he has a book of short stories and a novel forthcoming. And I think that’s as good as it gets.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. And then there’s this explosion of nivolumab and then grief and acceptance. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. I had one ready.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

” [laughter] Alex: Poor ICU doctors, you’re getting a lot of grief today. Yes, you read some book or you try to steal a phrase from somebody else, and then you say that for the first time, it does feel awkward. ” Don: It was part of the palliative care fellowship, a study of linguistics and communication. .”

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2024 AAHPM Visionary Elizabeth Hart, MD

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

Years later, when I was a geriatric fellow, he gave me another gift by asking me to review James Hallenbeck’s remarkable book Palliative Care Perspectives for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. This honor also recognizes the shared vision and values of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Geriatrics.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

And then there’s all those gold standards that I mentioned earlier, meaning making connection, prosocial emotions, processing grief. So when we were working on this book, intentionally interprofessional, we found such strong evidence that the team itself, simply being in a team, is protective. So that’s really important.

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