GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

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