GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I’m just wondering, how do we get surgeons, and maybe, how do we teach surgical trainees to move away from this fix-it mentality into the space of deliberation where deliberation is actually invited and prioritized in the surgical consultation? ” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.”

IT 128

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? Lightning round: magic wand.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Because this revolving door in the emergency room was basically assault and battery, if you will.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Then they just looked at those people who were healthcare agents as assigned by durable power of attorney for healthcare and it didn’t really change anything. We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try. I think amputation was on there. It was like 60 to 65% accurate.

Patient-Centered 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108