GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. My voice is nothing special. Relationships are usually more complicated. Anyways, the current study is looking at the impact of music on well being after a new dementia diagnosis. Alex 09:00 Not true. Theresa 09:01 Oh, no.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten.

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IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Why do this?

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Int Med. There are some subtleties there.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Doctors who agree to work for the armed forces receive special benefits. Philip Maxwell, Victoria, British Columbia A Seattle reader delivered a diagnosis on X: So I guess this article and the Dr. Interviewed are far left progressive. Please remind people of these serious complications which, though infrequent, cannot be reversed.

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Vaccination Families Family IT 52