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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. The practice steadily grew through the 80’s and 90’s, and Dr. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Family Physicians of St. Joseph, P.C.,

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So I would love to hear. Alex: Yeah.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. They blame the medical student.

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