Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. These recommendations are ideals, and some participants may require workarounds.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave. As I cycle through these things, what I find is I’m suddenly extremely present.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Jenny 04:15 Good question.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

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 78

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 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. In the same way that no one’s going to fight you or no one’s going to say, yes, do that colonoscopy because George Clooney did it on ER.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

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. Alex 00:12 I’m Alex Smith, and usually you ask me who we have with us today.

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