GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. Eric: Yeah. From a personal emotional perspective, what do you think makes it hard? Nick: Such a good question. It’s very fraught.

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IT Families Family Illness 83

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And I think the question for our field is, is that because the estimates that we have of GFR based on creatinine provide misrepresentation or an inaccurate representation of someone’s kidney function. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop?

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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

Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Postpartum hemorrhage is an unfortunate and well-known complication of delivery. A doctor-patient relationship is mandatory in the case and this can be proven by cross-checking the duty list or from the patient’s case sheet. Direct causation There has to be a direct relationship between the damage and the breach of duty.

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Hospital Government Patient-Centered Medical 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But I mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. So they are an important part of developing a relationship where one of the manifestations clearly is, “Well, yeah, I felt good about that. The caregiver has access to these tools.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

Healthcare Professional 102

Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And I became more and more involved in it, including becoming involved in research and developing some of the programs initially to provide care for people with both drug use and HIV related problems, women with HIV vulnerable populations.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19