Three times higher rates of surgery before death in Munster, Indiana than Honolulu, Hawaii
A McMansion in Munster, IN, from Wikimedia Commons Honolulu, HI, from Wikimedia Commons Following up on our previous post about…
A McMansion in Munster, IN, from Wikimedia Commons Honolulu, HI, from Wikimedia Commons Following up on our previous post about…
When have advance directives ever been shown to do anything? They were a complete failure in SUPPORT. Study after study…
The other day Eric Widera and I were teaching a course to the medical students about writing for social media…
I wanted to get this community’s thoughts on a recent article that made some headlines (see ABC news and New York…
If you see just one YouTube video where a doctor uses his own body to teach, then see Cardiac Arrhythmias.…
We have written several pieces in GeriPal about issues such as isolation and loneliness. One aspect that we haven’t really…
When I was 16 years old, I decided to volunteer in a nursing home. On my first day, I visited…
Hospitalizations present a host of dangers to an older patient, and perhaps one of the most hazardous parts of hospitalization…
Image from the National Library of Medicine nlm.nih.gov I’d like to briefly turn readers attention to two terrific papers published…
Dignity Therapy is a brief form of psychotherapy developed by Harvey Chochinov, MD with a goal of conserving a dying…