GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. I mean, people who used to be in hospitals are now with quicker DRGs. Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia. Others take care of people less so, a more hospitality model, if you will.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And the government can do something about that?!? And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. Oh, and the CDC's National Immunization Survey has been canceled by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, even if the Epidemic Intelligence Service seems to have received a temporary reprieve.) this is it. over the past 30 years.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. This is research and evidence that no one, healthy or ill, can afford to lose.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. Well played.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Those changes — plus the firing of 1,200 agency employees as part of mass layoffs across the government — are alarming scientists and NIH workers, who warn that they will undermine progress in combating diseases and other threats to the nation’s public health. in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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