Trying to Integrate Advance Care Planning Into Clinic
As a geriatrician who primarily sees patients in clinic, I find myself often wondering how best to apply what I’ve…
As a geriatrician who primarily sees patients in clinic, I find myself often wondering how best to apply what I’ve…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care (and primary care) have a problem. We haven’t learned how to make our work, our mission,…
With “Death Panels” dominating the healthcare reform debate, I was getting depressed. My hope had continued to rest with the…
Now that we are in an Orwellian world in which words reflect corporate and politically motivated interests rather than reality,…
There is a very important article in the Aug 5 JAMA by XinQi Dongof Rush University examing the relationship between…
A great deal of energy – and money – has been spent on preventing adverse drug reactions in elders. Many…
The aspect of geriatrics and palliative carewhich never ceases to amaze me is how much I learn from my patients…
Colace is a problem at our hospital too. Both because there is not data that it works and because once…
Supportive Care in Cancer recently published an article on the use of “futile” medications in patients with advanced and incurable…
Long term care is a hot topic. When people talk about long term care, they are generally talking about nursing…