StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. We are all scared. Take a walk. Go to bed earlier.

ER 100

ER Illness Physicals Provider 100

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. What’s your favorite book? I had no idea.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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. Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” That blew my mind.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. And I met with his family over Zoom, which was how many of us had to meet with families during that time. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go. Sunita: Yes.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. 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. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Eric 46:49 Yeah.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98