GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That put me in the emergency room. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. After I asked many people how many used it, and I would say less than one in ten were willing to talk to their healthcare provider. David 12:34 Yeah.

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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.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? And I also think, we still operate under pay for… We get paid for the services we provide, right? Eric: Yeah.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Also, the bill would curtail taxes that nearly every state levies on providers to help draw down billions in additional federal money, which generally leads to more money for hospitals. “They’ll do anything to see it stay open and provide good quality care to their neighbors, family members,” he said.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try. But more and more patients end up in emergency rooms and ICUs and they’re unrepresented.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Prior authorization varies by plan but often requires patients or their providers to get permission (also called precertification, preauthorization, or preapproval) before filling prescriptions, scheduling imaging, surgery, or an inpatient hospital stay, among other expenses. ” An Unintended Consequence of Health Reform?

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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. We need doctors and will welcome American doctors here with wide-open arms. Not vaccinating is playing Russian roulette with your child! Health care for all!

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