Emergency Room Families Illness Presentation 
StorytellERdoc
JULY 10, 2014
When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. Instead of providing emergent care, it seems I spend at least half of my emergency room time now playing doctor to chronic illnesses.
StorytellERdoc
APRIL 23, 2014
My response words--actively thanking him for taking the time to accompany his elderly mother to the Emergency Department--were something I had been saying for the past few years to adult children who accompanied their elder parent to our department. It had presented soon after she had eaten a BLT sandwich for lunch. She had no fever.
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GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. What words to use? Is the POLST useful? Under what circumstances? Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” Bernie: Well, there was a time when doctors made these decisions.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 12, 2023
I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. I did it before and this guy, he was 85, but he was climbing Mount Everest.”
GeriPal
JULY 11, 2024
We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. And it’s usually those people that I’m seeing.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). So, the top two were that assisted living communities, in those communities the resident should be present during assessment and care planning. Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.
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