Emergency Room Families Patient-Centered Specialization 
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. Patient advocates say they frequently hear from people who, like Diamond, thought they didn’t need to sign up for Medicare upon turning 65 because they had group health coverage.
GeriPal
JULY 19, 2024
Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Who should get it if anyone? What should we use to screen individuals? Is that right, Soo? Joe 01:15 Yes.
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GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?
GeriPal
JULY 11, 2024
It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. Kirsten 04:52 So we did a pilot study and of nine patients, and now we’re in the process of doing an RCT of 200. And so I thought it was appropriate. Eric 04:50 Okay.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Alex: Today we’re delighted to have Corita Grudzen, who is an emergency medicine physician and she’s at Memorial Sloan Kettering. And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here?
GeriPal
MARCH 30, 2023
Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery.
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