33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. We’re in Quatar, Luke’s bloody diarrhea has returned.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Age-appropriate physical examination that typically covers heart, lung, abdominal, skin, neurological, and musculoskeletal assessments.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Connection — The Integration of a Person-Centered Narrative Intervention into the Electronic Health Record : An implementation study. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There are a lot of physical obstacles (pets in the bed, partners snoring…etc), mental obstacles (anxiety, PTSD … etc), health obstacles (waking up to urinate, coughing etc. ), and unhealthy routines (caffeine intake, playing with your phones …etc) that contribute to this issue. The bedroom is recommended only for sleep.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Since an individual must have two copies of the mutation to be affected, the parents and other family members who have one copy, which are known as carriers, will be unaffected. Updated 2023 Jul 17].

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 And patients and family members tell us that they worry that their clinician is going to be overly focused on that mortality number now. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Or there’s physical symptom needs. The family meeting. Alex: Yeah. Kate: Oh yeah.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. But this lady continued to see me every three or four months and routinely asked me the very same question.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. And the reason for that is the nature of our palliative care intervention.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? generation.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. It’s part of our family mythology. We see them struggle, right?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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