GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

Illness 103

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. For those individuals, how do you think about that? And that’s something that I’ve had to learn. You know the case.

Patients 74

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126