GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function – our complex, frail, older patients are likely to be disappointed. 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.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. I went into emergency medicine to act.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100