GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. I don’t have access to change the levers of government. Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider. But I don’t.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

For nearly 40 years, EMTALA has been understood by medical providers and the federal government — including both Democratic and Republican administrations — to require abortion care when that care is needed to stabilize pregnant patients in a medical crisis. DFA teaches physicians and medical trainees how to do advocacy.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. We do talk about healthcare policy. Anybody do.

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Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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