Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. Empowerment self-defense training protects emergency department staff, boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters a safer work environment.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube. You’re going to be in the hospital for a week, you’re going to feel like crap for, probably, the next two months. Problem, fix for the problem.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run.

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