StorytellERdoc

AUGUST 12, 2019

"The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. The loss of one child during any shift in the ER is devastating. These patients were brought to our ER in multiple rigs that could never travel fast enough in these circumstances. This is a life-changing event for them." It just couldn't be. But four???

Families 100

Families Family ER IT 100

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

When starting opioid therapy for acute, subacute, or chronic pain, clinicians should prescribe immediate-release opioids instead of extended-release/long-acting (“ER/LA”) opioids. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. and although not an intention, also impacted laws, regulations and policies.

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Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Patients Individual 75

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Theresa 28:12 In 20 years, I have once seen somebody deliberately choose a song that was so traumatic, I had to actually put in my very first adverse event report. At a standstill in rooms.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Take a stab, Alex, in one sentence, I think more total time bias is when the start time for one group doesn’t begin until some event happens and therefore they have to survive until that event. Is it delirium from something else?

Management 117

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. Alex 00:12 I’m Alex Smith, and usually you ask me who we have with us today.

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IT Community Patients Families 108

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the same way that no one’s going to fight you or no one’s going to say, yes, do that colonoscopy because George Clooney did it on ER. But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then. And that person came back to life.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. And I remember getting to the shelter the next day after meeting him early and not finding him anywhere and learning later that he had died overnight.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories. But they were poor, really poor.

Mental Health 124

Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

He says emergency providers working marathons, athletic events and police and fire training sessions have used everything from kiddie pools to garbage bags filled with ice, as well as chilled IV fluids, to cool people down. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

Illness 54

Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner 54