StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Recently, due to the stress that several of my dearest friends have been experiencing in caring for their elderly parents, I am even more appreciative and respectful of my privilege in caring for elderly patients who have attentive and loving adult children who accompany them to our ER. And the ripples from these relationships travel far.

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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?

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. Eric 17:52 What do you hear?

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

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.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

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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