Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Choosing the right primary care clinic involves considering several factors, such as clinic locations, healthcare system, and the services offered. What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. What’s the connection and why? Eric 04:50 Okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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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?

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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. The patient case. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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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. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals.

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