GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. 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. What is your relationship? Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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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. Relationships are usually more complicated.

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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. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. Alex 11:17 Thank you.

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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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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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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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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. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. His hands were gone.

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