GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Did they ask for a consult?” I share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. If the consult is for “code status,” I always ask them, take a look at your past conversations. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. But we gave it as an option.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98