The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Bridging Gaps in Follow-up Appointments After Hospitalization and Youth Suicide: Mental Health Care Disparities Matter. References 1. 2023 Apr;21(2):166-7.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. Eric: How about you, Thomas?

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