PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. Adolescents with GERD often present similarly to adults with heartburn and regurgitation as the primary complaints. And the presentation for GERD varies by age. Now there are some risk factors for GERD.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. I was very close with my grandparents growing up, and then I actually was exposed to geriatrics as a pre-med student at Yale New Haven Hospital as one of the volunteers and Dr. I explored other things, but I felt like I consistently gravitated toward the care of older adults.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. ” So some of it is education around driving habits and ways of getting places also.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. That was really the theme song of how the community came together.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? It’s not on the community’s end. Nate 26:36 Right.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. And I think we really need to be very careful about that.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 72