Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Most notably, it led the way to the development of the x-ray, which allowed internal imagery to be used for diagnosis without the need for open surgery, and radiation therapy for treating cancer.

Medical 40

Medical Education Family Medicine DO 40

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Alex: We are only on the fourth of 10. They ordered mild to hot. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

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. So it’s not just like the patient or the family, but it’s also the healthcare system. Kara 10:12 Yep.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This is a new diagnosis in my practice. WHEN LIFE GETS REALLY DIFFICULT OR PAINFUL, I TURN TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY. And one with which I am, unfortunately, intimately familiar. Here are the symptoms: Waves of sadness and despair, with or without crying. A feeling that the solid ground has been pulled out from under you. I WALK IN NATURE.

IT 130

IT Relationship Diagnosis Individual 130