Potpourri from clinical work VII
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD The following are some reflections from being on service recently. Not enough time to develop these…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD The following are some reflections from being on service recently. Not enough time to develop these…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD I’m going to acknowledge up front that this is a rant. One of the skilled nursing…
The following post is adapted from something I read at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Geriatrics, Palliative, and Extended Care…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD I’d like GeriPal reader’s help with an issue that has vexed me since medical school. As…
Every once and a while Eric and I are contacted by people hoping to start a blog. Sometime people follow…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Wouldn’t it be great if we came up with a standardized approach to caring for hospitalized…
Evidence is mounting that regular exercise may prevent dementia and reduce the decline in physical function associated with dementia. Dr. Covinsky…
In 1996, Catherine Sarkisian described the common geriatric diagnosis “failure to thrive” as the result of fatalism and intellectual laziness.…
Bree Johnston, a true believer in geriatrics and palliative care, contributor to GeriPal, and erstwhile colleague at UCSF, recently returned…
Full credit to the Onion for the title idea for this post, and thanks to James Mittelberger for the tip.…