Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky
Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? …
Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? …
Health care professionals are human, and as humans we experience loss both in and out of work. You’d imagine though…
Dr. Faith Fitzgerald once quipped that prognostic modeling is the “punctilious quantification of the amorphous.” She has a point. Prognosis…
The Department of Health and Human Services helps to guide billions of dollars in investment and direction in research, policy,…
When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X”…
Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a…
Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? For me it’s radiation induced mucositis/esophagitis. Janet Abrahm is…
Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered,…
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has revolutionized the treatment of valvular heart disease for patients with severe aortic stenosis, a…
Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly]…