A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 3, 2025

I wrote this in 2016, when my visits were shorter because that EMR was simpler. Not only have we shortened medical appointments to 15 minutes. I get the feeling that non-providers think of this as something fairly ordinary, and even reasonable. And we need to risk a provider sometimes having fifteen unscheduled minutes.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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