GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Alex 09:00 Not true.

IT 97

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. That blew my mind.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. That’s why we did it.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. Margot: Yes. We basically met them.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. Tacara: I agree.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115