The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. And then one patient who really knew more about a topic than I did, which unfortunately happens much more often.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. This is 24,000 encounters, over 15,000 patients, 11 hospitals, eight states.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. These studies are important.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 15:56 2014. Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100