2016 Complication Families Screening 
Common Sense Family Doctor
JANUARY 19, 2025
Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Katie: Awesome.
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GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
This is my early father’s day gift from the family. I had it on my screen. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Jennifer: Yeah.
GeriPal
AUGUST 24, 2023
Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.
GeriPal
JANUARY 5, 2023
Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. This is going to be harmful to them and their family at the end of life.
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