GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. It’s hard for your family to know. We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. [laughter].

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. The first one is that a lot of patients, particularly the end of life, probably the majority of them, can’t make their own decisions.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

.” Hospitals that do stay afloat likely will do so by cutting services that are particularly dependent on Medicaid reimbursements, such as labor and delivery units, mental health care, and emergency rooms. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Finance Hospital Community Emergency Room 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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Insurance Patients Behavioral Health Services Diagnose 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. This would present a valuable opportunity for doctors and their families to learn French. Canada fits Americans comfortably.

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Vaccination Families Family IT 52