GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. So I go between.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. All guests agree that clinicians feel they need to have something they can do if they open Pandora’s box. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Don, welcome to GeriPal.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old.

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Vaccination Family Families Appointment 52