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? There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. So I just can’t keep going.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. And you should be able to give it in your hospice unit, like we can in our intensive palliative care unit. Janet: Oh.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting? And attention to pain builds pain. Do you have pain anywhere?” Ivan Ilyich’s character was a jerk.

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