GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? Others take care of people less so, a more hospitality model, if you will. The acuity level has gone up, right?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals. You still want to go to the hospital if you get sick? When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. We know hospital culture influences how we care for our patients. I need to fix it.”

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. .” I’m ageist as a geriatrician that I like older people as I always say, not the younger folks.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. For HHS to recommend rescheduling marijuana to schedule III, it must find that marijuana has a potential for abuse less than substances in schedules I and II, has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., 21 U.S.C. §

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. 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 it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation. I heard this loud click.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old. I only wish I had read this article a month ago.

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