StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

When a critical illness or injury occurs, then, we should all be thankful that we live within a society where emergent, life-saving medical care is available. Instead of providing emergent care, it seems I spend at least half of my emergency room time now playing doctor to chronic illnesses. Broken bones. A heart attack. Unprotected.

ER 100

ER Emergency Room Family Doctor Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm.

Families 133

Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

Primary Care 96

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. Why do I care?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Illness 52