GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. So the reasons for not screening are time constraint.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100