GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). This was the hot topic at AHPM.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Before we talk about miscommunication, would love to hear briefly from each of you, how or why did you get interested in this topic at all just around patient communication, patient-doctor communication, patient-provider communication. Don, you started us off with a song, what got you interested in this? And, Alex, as you said, we hope too.

Families 144

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 144

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

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. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101