Look SHARP
June 14, 2011
(well, maybe not) Last week, results of the SHARP trialwere released with great fanfare. In this study, investigators randomized over…
Lessons I learned by Examining Miracles
June 13, 2011
“If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary”…
Book Review – My Mother’s Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare
June 7, 2011
“When the parent gives to the child, the parent laughs, but when the child gives to the parents, the child…
Your Tax Dollars Are Being Wasted by Medicare
May 29, 2011
The title of this post may sound a little Tea Partyish, but stick with me here… Medicare is projected to…
The confusing morass of medical evidence
May 25, 2011
Practitioners of evidence-based medicine use published evidence from the medical literature to guide them as they try to provide the…
Watchful Waiting or Surgery for Prostate Cancer?
May 18, 2011
What should be done in men who have prostate cancer? On first examination, it might seem that the obvious answer…
Why Should I Have to Choose?
May 17, 2011
My interest in geriatrics stems from working in a nursing home as a teenager however my exposure to palliative medicine…
Dying in India: Palliative Care Provides Hope
May 10, 2011
Imagine you have a terminal illness and were given a prognosis of 3 months…or less. In a developed country like…
Loneliness
May 9, 2011
2 recent articles have helped me prioritize addressing loneliness of patients. An opinion piece in this week’s NEJM “The Loneliness…
Undue Influence: Corporate Sponsorship of Professional Society Meetings
May 7, 2011
All Posts · American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine · American Geriatrics Society · Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) · Society of General Internal Medicine
There was a great report in one of the most influential medical periodicals today. Not NEJM, or JAMA, or Annals…