GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function – our complex, frail, older patients are likely to be disappointed. And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Family 107

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 wonder if that is key in patients, people who are experiencing homelessness as well. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100