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. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? There’s not been literature that I’m aware of that demonstrates how much of this is sort of goal concordant care or not. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Maybe the alternative of the patient whose family hopes for a miracle in the face of certain death, for only that death to occur as anticipated by all. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then John, I’d love to hear from you starting off, you’re a palliative care doc, right? That dawned on me. It just depends.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

09:04 And I think that’s where the irony came from as well, because of the not only confusion within our field, but the confusion of patients and families who are the consumers of palliative care and the referral sources. Their family may be impacted, they may have social pain. Is that what I’m hearing, Laura?

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Patient-Centered Illness Clinic IT 52

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. And then, this little mini consultant.

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Electronics IT Patients Healthcare 139