GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us. What did you learn?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? What medications are the patient on?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me. Don’t worry about their alcohol use or drug use. Give some pleasure.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. Eric: And before we get exactly what you did, why did you decide to do this in the first place? It’s a great example.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. That was it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

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. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. ” Alex: Wow. Bob: Yeah.

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