GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. You think about the Book of Job, you think of Buddhism, and it’s so foundational to the field of palliative care. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. What are the patients that we remember? Abby: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. And oh, guess what? Ann: Yeah, I’ll let Tamra speak if you want.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. But for me, who’s practicing in North Carolina and not just at the main resource hospital, but also at the smaller hospitals, the community hospital, we look at this across the geography. Scott 11:35 Yeah, I think so.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. That’s just one hypothesis.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Matt, and others, including Craig, just not too long ago, wrote a book called Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. But I think primary care clinicians, geriatricians, should be able to do at least the basic management and HIV care. And many of them do not feel comfortable going to yet another clinic.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94