GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

The idea is, if it works at MGH, that’s a special kind of a place, maybe they do palliative care differently, maybe they have better resources, would this work at other transplant centers that have different kinds of clinicians or that serve different kinds of patients; so we wanted to have diversity of sites and clinicians and patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? It feels special to me.

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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. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

We are 27,000+ physicians and medical students in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization. DFA teaches physicians and medical trainees how to do advocacy. DFA focuses solely on what is best for our patients, not on the business side of medicine. Find out more at doctorsforamerica.org and on BlueSky @drsforamerica.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

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. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic. Anybody do.

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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. Eric: I don’t think we’re going to mention the cardiovascular system during this podcast. It was actually in the first draft of the book.

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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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. And that’s more standard.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. 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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Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Doctors see the human toll of gun violence every single day—in emergency rooms, in trauma centers, and in the quiet moments of grief that follow. DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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