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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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. I’m originally an ER physician. Jenny 04:15 Good question. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a.

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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? Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations? No, no, no.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. So, you know, I just wanted to present a couple options and give you a sense of, you know, the background for both.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100