A Chance to Revise the POLST
May 24, 2012
We have written a lot about POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) in previous GeriPal posts. Mostly, with great…
The longer you live, the longer it will take to die
May 22, 2012
Age is one of the great modern adventures, a technological marvel—we’re given several more youthfulish decades if we take care…
Purity of Intention is A Shaky Foundation
May 17, 2012
I wrote previously of the anti-choice attack on palliative care and the vulnerability of providers whose protection rests on proof…
A Thin Reed to Hang On
May 16, 2012
It’s no news to most GeriPal readers that a cadre of anti-choice forces targets end-of-life care. In their sights are…
The Fellowship Match: Geriatrics Is In, Palliative Care is Still Out
May 2, 2012
The biggest announcement so far at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting is that Geriatricswill be entering into the fellowship…
An Appeal to Bring Medical Eduction into Nursing Homes
May 1, 2012
What happens when the head of one of the most prominent medical education journals publishes a call for every medical…
Blogs to Boards: Question 11
May 1, 2012
This is the eleventh in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice…
Blogs to Boards: Question 9
April 21, 2012
This is the ninth in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice…
Gross National Happiness, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
April 19, 2012
I saw one of my favorite philosophers speak yesterday: Peter Singer. His book Animal Liberation is reason I became a vegetarian…
The “Silver Tsunami” is coming. What am I doing to prepare?
April 17, 2012
Everyone involved in geriatric care has heard the news: The “Silver Tsunami” is coming and the U.S. healthcare system is…