GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. I went into emergency medicine to act.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. Patients will tell our team after we’ve been through, “Oh, I just love that I was able to laugh with you guys. Nathan: I do.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. What is sludge? Where was it?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Scientific American Letter to the Editor: Response to Downar et al.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Who would/should be on that board?

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay. We just kind of start to amass these handouts and I would give them to the patient. Is it the patient? Eric: Wait, county 911? Lindsey: Our county 211.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125