Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. Empowered staff are safer staff—and safer staff save lives.

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Emergency Room Healthcare Physicals Healthcare Professional 59

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. There’s a whole age-friendly hospital systems that we are supposed to start our journey and keep going. Ab: As Judy said, how much time do you have?

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. Jennifer, welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because every time we remember a story, it’s changed physically in the brain. I think the process of writing, of getting into it, it’s not too dissimilar from what we do in some narrative medicine workshops where we write to a prompt and we see where it takes us. ” And what a brave thing to do. Vickie: Exactly.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 103