GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Individuals with moral injury may see themselves and the world as immoral and irreparable. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Now is the time for brutal truth—and action.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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