GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Brianna is one of UCSF’s palliative care fellows who just completed her psychiatry residency. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

But as a first year resident trainee at the University of Toronto, I cared for a young man in his early 30s while working in a shelter. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

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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IT Community Patients Families 108

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78