GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. Alex 27:57 Who are hospitalized, for example?

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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. Sam, my fellow, and I took the elevator upstairs to the hospital’s top floor.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I have never had a patient come into the hospital and say, Doctor, regardless of what you do, do a little CPR that’ll make me feel better. I would say most of the time we offer CRT in the hospital. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Do you want it?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

There’s radiation keeps getting less and less and there are studies that you can avoid radiation if you have this stage one or even two small or low grade or sometimes even, whatever, higher grade two, but not in the nodes type of breast cancer, an ER-positive or HER2-negative. In the hospital, it’s usually the hospital.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. There are also versions that are more prediction, but looking at things where that might be useful. Bob: Be well.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? Alex: Oh, yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

In fact, no one in this hospital died that was not on comfort care. And of the ER screening program, I’ve seen 266 people, 266 goals of care conversations in the ER, which were pretty significant. We are a community-based hospital. Pretty … Just all things, right? Just really powerful. We need money.

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