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.

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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. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a.

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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. Alex: Okay.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER. But what do we do about the majority of our patients who get discharged home? So we try a pilot.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Is it delirium from something else? It’s easy.

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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. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine.

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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. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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