GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. We’re looking at community based organizations and we’re just going to keep synthesizing this to try and construct a picture of music in everyday life. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And one of his patients was in the ICU, critically ill and incapacitated, and her husband was at her bedside and he was sitting and talking about decisions.

Patient-Centered 112

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

I think part of this does stem from a clinical experience and also some of the theoretical models that have evolved around serious illness, you know, to think specifically about dementia. And so trying to think a little bit more about what could be driving some of those alterations in the trajectory for all kinds of serious illness.

Illness 63

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question.

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Vaccination IT Patient-Centered Patients 128

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? . Alex and I don’t make anything on it. Alex 00:28 It’s a hobby.

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110