GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. But I just don’t expect my medical students, residents and generalist colleagues to do that and to have that. Pallimed post on “ Simplifying Opioid Conversions ”.

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. And I believe it needs the community. And the community came in.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

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. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And, like, you try to find a caregiver’s name in a hospital chart, you just can’t. Eric 36:36 I dare anybody to try to look up somebody’s caregiver’s name in a hospital chart. Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

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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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246