GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. Well, yeah, Dr. McPherson, aside.

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. My entree into healthcare is not in the academic space at all. I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Janet: And Katie has a great CAPC blog too that kind of summarizes a lot of additional evidence and references online if you have access to that too. Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. Eric: Yeah. Amber: The studies between Black and white patients?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

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. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96