GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

As somebody who has been part of literally more non-profits than I can remember, non-profit governance structures is a pain in the ass. Because no hospice will take a chance on her because she has end stage dementia every time she falls, she’s got to go to the er. (singing) Ira: Thank you very much. ” How is that right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Government is not the 51st state. The post PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. Similar things will happen with AI, without question.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? I say with sarcasm, but that the government decided to subsidize home ownership and simultaneously designed a system where Black folks couldn’t be homeowners. They didn’t go to the psych ER again.

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