GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. What motivated you to dive into this?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely. But yeah, full treatment. But I just want to, Scott, I guess we just disagree on this. Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be.

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