GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. They got feedback.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

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. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. Alex 01:29 And we’re delighted to welcome Teva Brender, who’s a third year resident in internal medicine at UCSF. Can we do better?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108