GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. The old table, 1.5 Drew: Not boxed.

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I mean, just such struggles around corruption in hospitals, access to opioid pain medication, and you almost had to wait until a friend of yours was in power, so you could have access, get permission. So, the community comes in.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

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. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. And so, how can this be?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95