GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. I have hired coaches based on referrals. Medicine’s a tough road for everybody, and we put all kinds of barriers in the way in addition. Greg: … this is an internal medicine audience ultimately. Vicky: Yeah. She’s amazing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. There really was very little. So I think education is key.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? Eric 14:10 Yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. That’s a question too, Alex. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. So Brian wrote this article in JAMA Internal Medicine arguing that we should take the word intensive out of intensive care units. He’s at UCSF, he’s an intensivist. Who’s his aunt by the way.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88