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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary We have a special extra podcast this week. Transcript Eric: Hey, GeriPal listeners, this is a GeriPal special episode. Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. Alex, what’s going on here? Eric: Yeah.

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Black History Month: 10 Champions of Children’s Health & Wellness

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Jane Cooke Wright: cancer research pioneer (1919-2013) Dr. Jane Cooke Wright is known as a cancer research pioneer and her work was crucial to the development of chemotherapy. I tried hard to be accessible to patients and to make them unafraid of me so we could have free and open conversations,” said Dr. Canady. “We

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Family history of febrile seizures. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about.

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