GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I think I certainly have had a lot of friends and colleagues in internal medicine who are so fearful that, oh, if I get this definition wrong, I’m going to cause some harm.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. This could be something that meshes with your life and medicine. So I got back into it anonymously. Eric: Yeah.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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. But you’re right, there has been a shift in policy to incentivize patients and providers to choose home therapies. It’s easy.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. We just hired a nurse.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77