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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And so that isolation that Jessica talked about was really an example of the trauma we were experiencing.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . Or, if they were in the emergency room and decided to be admitted for comfort measures only, I would admit them.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. We did our initial pilot study.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. We do not have a director of national health preaching against the use of vaccination. Canada fits Americans comfortably. Kennedy Jr.’s