GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. Since my mom died in 2020 until I wrote this piece in the fall of last year, I had not ever expected or intended to write about my experience. This was in May of 2020. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Remember, this was March 2020, around that time when we got all this training and we were having now these conversations really often. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no. It was very simple. So unless you have.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Eric 04:55 Does it need an experience directly?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. As a managed care state also, our care managers in managed care for Medicaid could be 300 miles away.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services. Prof Case Manag. December 2020. I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. Eric: So as we start talking about things that we can do about it, maybe we can just start off with this thing of including it in the curriculum for healthcare professionals. What does that actually look like? And you start small.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). This is a poem that gets into this issue of, what is the clinician relationship to all that stuff that’s going on around us? Mike: Yeah. Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

And if you look at the span of history of infectious diseases, we have always managed to control all infectious diseases because we have tools because it’s the other, it’s not yourself. it was April, 2020. But we have managed to control it. Infectious disease is always other. Control it.

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