GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. At a standstill in rooms.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? It’s right there.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. And I remember getting to the shelter the next day after meeting him early and not finding him anywhere and learning later that he had died overnight.

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