StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. Four, don't underestimate the power of a good book and a great song.

ER 100

ER Illness Physicals Provider 100

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. 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. Alex 09:00 Not true.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

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. 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. She has a book out. That blew my mind.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

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. That makes it really special for them and for me.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98