Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.” Wait times.

Screening 52

Screening Insurance Primary Care Referral 52

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. I was wondering, because Alex did mention that we talked with Jessie before about whether or not we should be teaching some of this stuff in palliative care fellowships. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse. And I work right next to Don at the time. He was like, yeah, tell me about it. We just don’t have time.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130