Emergency Room Family Healthcare Professional Illness 
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
” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. That put me in the emergency room. Is that your feeling, too?
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
APRIL 13, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia. A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room. And family members should know that this needs to go on.”
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. 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. Emergency rooms.
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