GOP Candidates on Advance Directives
January 26, 2012
We have learned a lot of lessons in Hospice and Palliative Care about how political discourse can impact our field…
The Third Annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award
January 20, 2012
The 2012 recipients of the third annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards were just recently announced. I was honored to…
Eprognosis gets Half a Million Hits in the First Week
January 19, 2012
Eprognosisis barely a week old, and we’ve already had over 500,000 pageviews (150,000 unique visitors). For perspective, GeriPalis about 3…
Copyright and Access to Taxpayer Funded Research
January 8, 2012
This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts…
Should for-profit hospices be banned? Or are they victims of a witch hunt?
January 6, 2012
10 year stock price of Gentiva, the nation’s fastest growing for-profit hospice provider For-profit hospice has been in the news recently,…
MMSE and Copyrights Part II: Is the MMSE Derivative of Some Other Work?
December 31, 2011
A couple of days ago we coveredDr. John Newman’s NEJM perspectives piece that focused attention on how a company, PAR,…
Copyrights and Copylefts in Medicine: The Case of the Wayward MMSE
December 29, 2011
The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is the most widely used cognitive screening test. Many have attributed this to the relative…
‘Tis the Season: The BMJ Christmas Edition
December 21, 2011
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not because those damn kids jingle belling and everyone telling you…
Discussing Prognosis When Longevity Is the Only Life Limiting Condition
December 7, 2011
I think we all probably agree that health care providers should give patients with a life limiting illness the option…
Potpourri from Clinical Work V
December 6, 2011
The following observations and questions came up during my recent work as palliative care attending. Thoughts and responses are welcome:…