Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. By removing the need to constantly look at a screen or type notes, we can be more present and engaged, fostering stronger therapeutic relationships and improving patient satisfaction. References: 1.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Ryan: I started in 2011. I finished my fellowship in ’88.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. You know, baby boomer generation started to turn 65 and older back in 2011. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. And ideally at other times too.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. .”

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Do you have pain anywhere?”

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