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. And that’s very human, to be awkward. The statements, the responses, it feels awkward.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

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.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice.

Patients 109

Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I would be surprised if it was as good as you guys, but I think that you can imagine a medical student or an intern doing this before they went into a room to talk to a patient and having it be pretty helpful.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105