Blood, Sweat, and Tears

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Standing infront of a freshly groomed and caffeinated team, my teeth fluffy with plaque, ink marks on my arms, socks soaked in sweat, knees buckling from endless stair missions, just managing to keep it together with but a fine line of hope. Post call hope. I’ve lived through these moments with such a fragile spirit.

ER 52

ER Management IT Consulting 52

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. You know, actually, Eric, I want to tell you, actually, about a different patient, if you don’t mind, instead of Mr. A. Because this is where the seed of the idea started for all this music for me.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah. Naheed 15:56 2014.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. Working with Abe Brody at NYU to do a randomized control trial of an intervention for education, for psychotropic use in end stage dementia patients. Are you going to see a doctor are? Who sees you? How is that done?

IT 113

IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

You add to that employment discrimination, criminal justice discrimination, and of course educational system discrimination, and of course, we pay for our public schools based on local taxes. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. The psych ER was still open, and they spent money. We basically met them. I don’t know.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. And that’s more standard.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

And of the ER screening program, I’ve seen 266 people, 266 goals of care conversations in the ER, which were pretty significant. Darrell: Gosh, in the ER group, at the end of the first surge, had me come to their staff meeting, gave me a beautiful award and made me an honorary member of the Emergency Medicine Group.

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136