It’s all in the Framing: How to Influence Surrogates’ Code Status Decisions
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) We intuitively know that the words we choose when talking about whether or not to attempt…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) We intuitively know that the words we choose when talking about whether or not to attempt…
Point: Physicians do not deserve IRB protections like vulnerable patients by: Sei Lee The recent article by Lagu and colleagues…
by: Helen Chen, MD Riding back to DFW on the airport shuttle after attending the Pioneer ACO presentations during the…
A Guantanamo detainee’s feet are shackled to the floor, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Michelle Shephard, Pool) (Credit: Associated Press) Recent…
Being a New Yorker, I am a bit obsessed with the windows of the dowager department stores that march down…
Some of my favorite teaching incorporates video. Recently, I saw an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) DVD with movie excerpts.…
National Nurses week begins on May 6, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the “founder of modern nursing”, and continues through…
One could argue that nonmelanoma skin cancer should not even be called Cancer. While under the microscope it looks like…
This years’ American Geriatrics Society (AGS) meeting in Grapevine, Texas, is fast approaching. The schedule is jam packed with great…
It seems like such a good idea. Before a patient takes a new drug, they would like to know that…