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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. 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. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

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