GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ryan: I started in 2011. Eric: How does it feel like for you, Ryan, since 2011, you’ve had different roles? We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. How long ago?

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Ettinger, who died in 2011, went on to found the Cryonics Institute in Michigan where he, his mother and his first and second wives all now reside in metal flasks kept at −196 °C. In the case of whole-body cryotherapy , patients sit or step into a cryotherapy booth for 3-5 minutes. And there are many attempts to make it a reality.

Community 111

Community Medical IT Healthcare Professional 111

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Because that really is what this is about.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. So I felt like over all these years I have learned so much from my patients and from the science, that it should be out there in one place where people can easily access it and help themselves. Eric: Yeah.

IT 105

IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105