GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. So I think we, if you’re going to really ask that primary care do this or forgive the way I’m about to phrase this, but like constantly insist that this is their job, you know, you really need to think about the whole picture.

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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. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. I can get you guys that information.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. Mara: Exactly.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. Eric: So what do we do with the information? Alex: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I need structure.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Bubbles Up is following Bubbles Up as the song will elucidate.

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