GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . So when I make a cartoon, usually I’m sending it to a few people before it’s ever seeing the light of social media, to make sure it’s not going to come across as insensitive either to patients or to my fellow providers. You never want to be punching down.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

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. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. Prior-auth forms? Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee.

Patient-Centered 118

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And the role of the palliative care provider is to figure out, knowing that different things affect different people, is what causes somebody in that particular instance to feel their dignity is being undermined. And the data was saying, “What is really important is the way you, the care provider, experience that person.”

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. They do the homework they talk about then with their doctor or their healthcare provider. Like, what communities would have been included for that study?

Consulting 64

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 64

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there. They deal with that.

Community 89

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.” Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 126