From Twitter to Tenure – The Wrap Up
May 6, 2011
I have the distinct honor of wrapping up the online prelude for the SGIM Social Media Workshop “From Twitter to…
The Third Annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards
May 3, 2011
The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation in collaboration with the Hastings Center and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life…
A New Tool for Estimating Prognosis in the Elderly
May 2, 2011
“What if your doctor, making use of a Web site that collected a number of tested geriatric scales, could enter…
Twitter to Tenure: Using Social Media to Enhance Your Career
May 1, 2011
What good is Twitter anyway? Why should I contribute to a blog? What are the limits of what I can…
Studying Race/Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Death: Helpful or Harmful?
April 26, 2011
I received an email yesterday from CNN asking me to comment on a study published today in the Journal Cancer…
Palliative care Nurse Practitioner Models of Care – It’s all about money. Or is it?
April 18, 2011
Within the context of an aging population, a US health care system in financial flux, and the shortage of primary…
The Match is Moving Leaving Geriatrics and Palliative Care Behind
April 15, 2011
The word on the street is that the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) will shortly announce that as of 2012,…
Hemoglobin A1C target of 7 in the elderly. Really? REALLY???
April 14, 2011
I want to draw GeriPal readers attention to a terrific commentaryin this week’s JAMA by GeriPal’s own Sei Lee. Sei…
Opioid Analgesics and the Risk of Fractures in the Elderly
April 12, 2011
Current guidelines from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) state that “NSAIDs and COX-2 selective inhibitors may be considered rarely, and…
Poll: What Does Personalized Medicine Mean to You?
April 6, 2011
Much has been made of the potential of the genome, perhaps none of it more tantalizing than the concept of…