GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be. About us – Dignity in Care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. 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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. In clinic, I’m helping what, hundreds or thousands. When I write, I learn a ton from that. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. Even if I write a scholarly article.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Is pain all in your head, Haider?

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