Books Diagnose Illness Specialization 
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. Here, I outlined the way technology delineates the future of eye care and vision.
GeriPal
AUGUST 31, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. – Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. .
GeriPal
MAY 9, 2024
all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. It’s good. So proud of myself.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
And welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Ira Byock, who is a author and well-known, has written several books about hospice, inspired many to go into the field, and is the founder of- Ira: The Institute for Human- Alex: The Institute for Human Caring. Joseph: Yes, This is the first time. I’m excited. Alex: Welcome. Overall it was 3.1%
GeriPal
AUGUST 8, 2024
I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. Props a prayer book under their chin to keep their mouth closed. This is Eric Widera. It just depends.
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