How Your Name Can Influence Your Health
December 13, 2013
“We find ourselves in something of a quandary when it comes to making up our minds about the phenomenon which…
Communication training: is simulation enough?
December 5, 2013
A video example of palliative care communication techniques in the wrong hands by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Major paper in JAMA…
10 Serious Illnesses & the Number of Times "Palliative Care" Was Mentioned In Wikipedia #HPM
November 22, 2013
Every time I listen or talk to Diane Meier I get inspired. Today was no different. She inspired me to…
Oral Ketamine for Depression and Anxiety in Hospice
November 21, 2013
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Journal of Palliative Medicine recently published a nice exploratory open label study of daily oral ketamine…
Should My Patient Get an Amyloid PET Scan for the Diagnosis of Alzheimers?
November 19, 2013
In April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved florbetapir F-18 (Amyvid) PET scans to identify areas of accumulation of…
Literature Potpourri
October 26, 2013
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Ronald Reagan died in 2004 of advanced dementia Some great paper GeriPal readers should be award…
Do Not Hospitalize orders for nursing home residents with advanced dementia
October 8, 2013
by: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Advanced dementia is a terminal illness needing palliative care. Unfortunately, there is a great divide between this…
ePrognosis: What are the Next Steps
October 3, 2013
by: Alex Smith @alexsmithmd We need your help. We’ve come a long way with ePrognosis, our online and now mobile…
Adding Prognosis to Cancer Screening Decisions: The ePrognosis Cancer Screening App
October 2, 2013
The goal of cancer screening is to identify asymptomatic cancer well before it causes symptoms or death. This means that…