Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Do you prefer a full-service medical center or a walk-in clinic? Your choice can impact how easily and quickly you can access care, particularly in non-emergency situations.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Alex: Today we’re delighted to have Corita Grudzen, who is an emergency medicine physician and she’s at Memorial Sloan Kettering. And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then one patient who really knew more about a topic than I did, which unfortunately happens much more often.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 99

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. 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?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. We hope you enjoy this episode. And that’s how we connected.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. We see them struggle, right? We see how hard it is.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98