GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it. Amy 12:23 I find this one. What’s the goal?

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. Relationships are usually more complicated. Eric 28:10 Eric, it’s been 20 years.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. So for the stepped care model, all patients see palliative care at the time of diagnosis.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. It’s not just in the next couple weeks or months. James 26:49 Exactly. And also, a lot of it is kind of challenging to predict, like, if you. That is really challenging to predict.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. Housewives were burned out.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. You hear people, a lot of talking heads on tv. There is a tension.

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141