GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Brianna is one of UCSF’s palliative care fellows who just completed her psychiatry residency. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. Yeah, yeah.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. And it just really upset me internally that we were living in a society where we were letting people fall through the cracks again, again, again and again at the end of life. But it was really traumatic for me as a trainee living in Toronto.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100