GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

So if a young person is saying, “I’m going to try my 10th round of chemotherapy even though I physically am suffering. We really need to figure out who we are in the world and that takes your physical identity, your sexual identity, your vocational goals. The family dynamics are different though. Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It does remind me, Dani, of that scapegoating phenomenon, when you’re talking about projection, where you see anger getting projected onto another person or a team, saying, “Oh, it’s the physical therapist’s fault or the oncologist is culpable.” Dani: Totally. So those non-confrontational stances.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And really, I mean, so for example, if a social worker were doing this listening, perhaps there are family dynamics or psychosocial needs that they would be attuned to, whereas I as a physician might have something else I pay attention to. But all of us need to be able to listen deeply. So there is this overlap.

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