GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We really like the community doctors to know, so those of you listening, that our patients, they’ve lost their physical freedom, but they have autonomy in terms of their medical decision-making just like anybody else. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They suffered from it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Physical symptoms like pain, dyspnea, fatigue, psychological symptoms, depression, loneliness, and then some of the social experiences as well, like social isolation.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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