10 Serious Illnesses & the Number of Times "Palliative Care" Was Mentioned In Wikipedia #HPM
Every time I listen or talk to Diane Meier I get inspired. Today was no different. She inspired me to…
Every time I listen or talk to Diane Meier I get inspired. Today was no different. She inspired me to…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Journal of Palliative Medicine recently published a nice exploratory open label study of daily oral ketamine…
In April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved florbetapir F-18 (Amyvid) PET scans to identify areas of accumulation of…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Ronald Reagan died in 2004 of advanced dementia Some great paper GeriPal readers should be award…
Advanced care and palliative care can reduce healthcare costs for people with serious chronic illness. It’s hard to dispute that…
by: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Advanced dementia is a terminal illness needing palliative care. Unfortunately, there is a great divide between this…
by: Alex Smith @alexsmithmd We need your help. We’ve come a long way with ePrognosis, our online and now mobile…
The goal of cancer screening is to identify asymptomatic cancer well before it causes symptoms or death. This means that…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD The patient was elderly and was hospitalized for a COPD exacerbation. Fortunately, her breathing problems were…