StorytellERdoc

JULY 2, 2014

Over my numerous years as an ER doctor, I have met people that I never would have had the fortune, or misfortune (as some would say), to otherwise meet. My thoughts immediately went to my sister, Susie, who has had a long and fulfilling career as a Special Education Teacher. Michael continued this path.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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?

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

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. Because no hospice will take a chance on her because she has end stage dementia every time she falls, she’s got to go to the er.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans.

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