Permanente Medicine

JULY 8, 2025

My articles would’ve gotten a lot longer, but not necessarily any better. But that’s the problem with most of health care today. I often march around and everybody talks about how complicated health care is, and yes, sure it is, but at the end of the day, those are the financial incentives.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In this week’s episode, we dig into two deceptively simple questions: When does someone become a cancer survivor, and should palliative care be in the business of caring for them? Spoiler: It’s more complicated than it seems. 19:35 Both. So I think that the example I have locally here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. She falls and breaks her hip.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. It just depends.

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