GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. What’s your favorite book? Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. This guy came alive.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I think I certainly have had a lot of friends and colleagues in internal medicine who are so fearful that, oh, if I get this definition wrong, I’m going to cause some harm.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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.

Hospital 125

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? Prior-auth forms?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. Alex: What happens when people survive?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? And so are the patients.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116