GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Transcript. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

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. 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. ” Very specific, rare circumstance.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. All of this is. Palliative care.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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Insurance Patients Behavioral Health Services Diagnose 52