GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. The other thing … And I really appreciate that you brought up our residents and our medical students.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. Eric: Yeah. Amber: The studies between Black and white patients?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I mean, just such struggles around corruption in hospitals, access to opioid pain medication, and you almost had to wait until a friend of yours was in power, so you could have access, get permission. So, the community comes in.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. For example, and not to criticize medical students, but sometimes you get an M1 or M2 writing about burnout in physicians, and sometimes I’m like, okay, that’s a harder piece to write about.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. I got one more lightning question, Janet, you’re at UCSF you’re caring for a patient in the hospital.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. In the individual clinical encounter, that’s a lot of what we do. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? And, like, you try to find a caregiver’s name in a hospital chart, you just can’t. Eric 36:36 I dare anybody to try to look up somebody’s caregiver’s name in a hospital chart. I wonder why you did that. Home caregivers.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so. Another was sent to me when I was very sick in the hospital by a patient of mine.

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70