GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Devika: Thank You. Eric: Thank you.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections. Devika: Thank You. Eric: Thank you.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele. Michele: Thank you for having me. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: Yep.

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Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. You sort of had a month after all of those events. We won’t kill your patient.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119