The Dangers of Rote Medicine
***Warning: the below blog includes the direct Emergency Room documentation of an attempt to resuscitate a patient who died*** I…
***Warning: the below blog includes the direct Emergency Room documentation of an attempt to resuscitate a patient who died*** I…
We have learned a lot of lessons in Hospice and Palliative Care about how political discourse can impact our field…
The 2012 recipients of the third annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards were just recently announced. I was honored to…
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This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts…
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A couple of days ago we coveredDr. John Newman’s NEJM perspectives piece that focused attention on how a company, PAR,…
The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is the most widely used cognitive screening test. Many have attributed this to the relative…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not because those damn kids jingle belling and everyone telling you…
I think we all probably agree that health care providers should give patients with a life limiting illness the option…