GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

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. And this gets called, disparagingly, music medicine, where doctors, because they have a license, they just use music like they would use a drug. I’m originally an ER physician.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . 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. This could be something that meshes with your life and medicine. So I got back into it anonymously. Alex: Okay.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. They’re more, more interested in relationship centered care than the fancy medicines that you’re. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case? And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102