GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. But importantly, it did not change the frequency of comfort care orders. Kate: Sounds right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They didn’t feel connected to the people in their broader community.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. That put me in the emergency room. And she never confessed.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Alex 08:36 Right. Eric 08:37 That’s what we really want to know. It may not be.

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