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A physicians group’s baseless objections to advance care planning

September 28, 2015

AAPS objections to CMS payment for Advance Care Planning are a wreck. Source: Wikimedia Commons by: Stan Terman, PhD, MD…

September 4, 2015

The Supreme Court case of Cruzan (Nancy Cruzan pictured) vs. Missouri established the right of individuals to make decisions in…

July 7, 2015

By: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD The following is a quote from an Emergency Medicine physician I interviewed for a study about…

May 24, 2015

by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I was fortunate to be part of a really nice systematic review of decision aids for…

February 26, 2015

Reviewed: The Conversation, by Angelo Volandes Reviewed by: Alex Smith Using video to help patients with serious illness make decisions…

November 3, 2014

by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Every once and a while, a new innovation comes along that makes you go, “Wow!” or,…

November 2, 2014

by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Rebecca Sudore @PrepareForCare Do you have Spanish-speaking patients? If you do, then point them toward…

July 16, 2013

Picture of this frog has no bearing on the post. I’m not saying residents are frogs in disguise. Seriously. It’s…

May 26, 2013

By: Bree Johnston One issue that I think we have not examined sufficiently is the impact that repeated discussions about…

May 24, 2013

by: Josh Lakin, MD Palliative Care Fellow, UCSF This week has been full of active discussion around “the code”. As…