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 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. Eric 10:55 So one serious illness. Our consultation.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

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 so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall. We can talk in 2025.

Patient-Centered 111

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

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.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. Like, how close to the end of life is it all just in seriously ill patients, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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 127

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 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108