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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

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. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients?

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. And it just really upset me internally that we were living in a society where we were letting people fall through the cracks again, again, again and again at the end of life. We are caring for people, people who are experiencing homelessness.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine.

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