GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. And so I went and I kind of reached out and found that they were doing a one week training, multidisciplinary training, which they offered me a place on as a medical student. But I want to go back in time now.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. So he would show up to these National Medical Association meetings every year and he was in the audience. It’s now available. Eric: So, let me ask this then.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. Keri: What we can’t acknowledge within ourselves or say in words, it’ll come out in behaviors. We’ll act it out.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. Alex: Yeah.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. Julien: I want aggressive physical therapy and occupational therapy for every single one of our patients all the time, multiple times a day. Alex: Bye everybody.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so. And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And I followed that story ever since. But I do find among our house staff, the time for reflection is not there.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation.

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