What is your front desk saying about palliative care?
September 9, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Do you know what the operator or person at the front desk is saying about palliative…
JAMA ICU Trial: Messaging, Information Toxicity, and The Simpsons
July 13, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD There’s been some terrific discussion about the ICU trial published in JAMA. I’d like to share…
Fast food-style palliative care consults found inneffective, may cause PTSD
July 6, 2016
by: Alex Smith, MD. Alex Smith was formerly a palliative care attending at UCSF. Now that his work has been…
Aid in dying: a wedge issue for palliative care
June 10, 2016
by: Alex Smith MD, @AlexSmithMD I’ve written before about my evolution in thinking about aid in dying. How, while I…
Just ask-tell-ask: Physician-Surrogate discordance about prognosis in the ICU
May 18, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I’m sure that all of us have encountered this scenario: the doctor thinks patient’s prognosis is…
When older adults enroll in hospice, symptoms improve
April 19, 2016
By Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Hospice has taken some tough blows in the last few years. Funding cuts. A reporter at…
Announcing ePrognosis: Communication – using video to teach prognosis communication
April 7, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD We’re thrilled to announce that our other major project (other than GeriPal, that is) has undergone…
Martin Shkreli (aka PalliBro) buys Palliative Care
April 1, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) and Alex Smith (@AlexSmithMD) In other merger and acquisition news today, palliative care was bought today…
GeriPal acquired by Pallimed
April 1, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD, and Eric Widera, @EWidera We know this will come as a surprise to many of our…
Potpourri from clinical work IX: BiPaP, Movantik, and Lord Grantham
February 5, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD This is the ninth iteration in the potpourri from clinical work series, where I basically raise…