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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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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

He had this disseminated head and neck cancer and he had tried to get care before and due to his mental illness, he couldn’t follow up for cancer care. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. Naheed 17:53 Yeah, they want connection, they want relationship, they want, meaning.

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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 I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. And then, this little mini consultant. They had no idea. Bob: It’s not bad.

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