Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. The bill for that care: $12,000.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. 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.

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. But yeah, it’s complicated.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Why another study? Eric: Okay.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. It feels special to me. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me. What happened here?

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98