GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. 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. It was Remember Me.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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.

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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. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. Kara 10:12 Yep.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. Malaz: Correct.

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Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This is a new diagnosis in my practice. The Dalai Lama used this practice to transform not only the suffering of the Tibetan protesters who were being injured during the 2008 demonstrations in Tibet but also the anger and hatred of the Chinese soldiers who were cracking down on the protesters.

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