GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I think I certainly have had a lot of friends and colleagues in internal medicine who are so fearful that, oh, if I get this definition wrong, I’m going to cause some harm.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. I’m originally an ER physician. Relationships are usually more complicated.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations? No, no, no. Is that right?

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. So, you know, I just wanted to present a couple options and give you a sense of, you know, the background for both.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102