GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time? Should they?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). Devika: Thank You. Eric: Thank you. Let’s move over to nephrology.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so one of the patients that we mentioned in that article is a gentleman who lived four hours away who was unable to come to chemotherapy appointments because his pain was so debilitating once we gave him not a huge amount of opioids, he was actually able to come get chemotherapy and then live for much longer. What state are they in?

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73