The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  38,3 (2008): 323-33. References 1.

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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? So, you really have to leave this up to the patients and their families to understand what the context is and what is meaningful to them. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. That was the patient and the family were of equal importance.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

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.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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. Don’t worry about their alcohol use or drug use. Give some pleasure.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

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.

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