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GeriPal
JULY 19, 2024
There’s an article about her in New York Times. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. They’re dedicated, committed, they’re there for their patients and they understand it’s really important. Anna 01:38 Yeah.
Noreta Family Medicine
APRIL 17, 2024
Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.
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GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. We hope you enjoy this episode. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me. Alexis: Yeah.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. 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?
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. The patient case.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. Shunichi Nakagawa’s Tweet that went viral on responding a patient request to drink ice water before death.
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