Driving and Dementia: An Excellent Guideline, and A Missed Opportunity
The American Academy of Neurologyrecently released a very useful guideline on the evaluation of driving risk in patients with dementia…
The American Academy of Neurologyrecently released a very useful guideline on the evaluation of driving risk in patients with dementia…
Facebook, Twitter, Yammer and the Internet overall is a game changer. The rulebook of how we practice medicine has changed…
It is a story that happens all too frequently in a fragmented healthcare system. A woman with cancer on chemotherapy…
Rob Pardi’s comments in the Pallimed discussion affected me deeply. His honesty, integrity, and willingness to share were so impressive that…
The New York Times recently ran an article titled “Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live”. The article told…
There is a lot of focus on what elders with dementia can’t do. But what about more discussion of what…
Palliative Care Nursing Quality Care to the End of Life, Third Edition Marianne Matzo, PhD, GNP-BC, FPCN, FAAN (Editor) Deborah…
OK, Congress has passed insurance reform. But President Obama’s proposed nomination of Don Berwick (pictured) to head CMS says a lot…
At our most recent UCSF Division of Geriatricsjournal club, we had a very lively discussion about an article examining whether…
I was consulted recently about an elderly woman who refused surgery for a large bowel obstruction from a colonic mass…