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. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. I am passionately against bad care and there is a lot of bad hospice care that preys on highly vulnerable patients and is unnecessary. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. And I wonder if that is key in patients, people who are experiencing homelessness as well. Government is not the 51st state. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good. Bob recently wrote an essay in JAMA on AI and delivered a UCSF Grand Round s on the same topic.

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