Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. In this article, I’ll walk you through why urgent care could be your best option when time is of the essence. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

ER 52

ER Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. Look for Jenny to potentially appear on the show Americas Got Talent (no lie).

IT 97

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nathan.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98