GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter. Because like Amanda said, everything we see is coping.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. David: Right. Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does.

Illness 72

Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? And when they talk to patients and families, it’s a pretty easy sell. Every time.

IT 128

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. It was very difficult. Corita: Yeah.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Five minute appointments. And then when we started coming up with mortality models or other sorts of prediction models with five factors or seven factors, people were like, “That’s too complicated. Alex: Yeah, that means you could see more patients, right. Alex: Go ahead Matt.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? And countertransference is everywhere.

Patients 109

Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100