GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Why do so many (most, all??)

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And I was an internal medicine resident. Eric: I don’t think we’re going to mention the cardiovascular system during this podcast.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. Proposing the clinicians ask a simple follow up question to the usual “do you feel safe at home?”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Think about CPC+.

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