If you asked clinical researchers to describe the most important advances in research methodology over the past generation, many would…
“Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.” So said Angela Fagerlin and Carl Schneider…
Over the last 30 years we have tried to standardize patient communication about end-of-life issues though the utilization of statutory…
It is a story that happens all too frequently in a fragmented healthcare system. A woman with cancer on chemotherapy…
Words have power. Language has power. The words we use may comfort or shock, allay or provoke, sooth or batter…
I’ve been attending on our hospital’s palliative care service. Several things have been on my mind, and although I don’t…
JAMA published an essaythis week about a conversation I had with my grandparents entitled “Can We Agree to Disagree”. This…
As a geriatrician who primarily sees patients in clinic, I find myself often wondering how best to apply what I’ve…