GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They weren’t hurt, they didn’t need transport, and we were seeing the same people over and over again. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. ” Someone’s about to discharge from a hospital, we tell them they need to get grab bars.

Community 113

Community Transportation IT PCP 113

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Eric 07:04 You actually created things like a curriculum for hospital medicine fellows in radiation oncology. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. But radiation oncology was really more or less like a black box.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Alex: Yeah.

IT 101

IT Families Family Diagnosis 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 112

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

Patient-Centered 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

For some of my patients, I think it has to do with the respond that the video visit provides, the transportation. And that autonomy allows for different types of conversations and frankly, maybe just a more reprieve and less burden on the caregiver, given all the transportation issues, et cetera. Lynn 37:39 I was in the hospital.

Telehealth 104

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 104