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A Decade of Blogging!

Aspiring Minority Doctor

Okay, now I'll admit I've done a horrible job of keeping up with the blog lately especially given that this is only my fifth post of the year, but today is still super special for me. I definitely had some great cases and got more comfortable managing complex trauma repairs on my own in the ER and trauma bay, so I can't complain.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

My voice is nothing special. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. I rely on recorded music for my patients mostly, and I think that’s based on my singing. I think that’s more palliative than me. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. 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? No, no, no.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy. Management, it’s hard. Who sees you?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. 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. Margot: Yes.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

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.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. This is Eric Widera.