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Facing “The Enemy”: A new post by Amy Berman

February 24, 2011

“‘Those are my images, aren’t they?’ I asked the radiologist….The radiologist’s response was remarkable. ‘Would you like to meet your…

December 16, 2010

The subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) has a plethora of articles in the lay literature, read intensively by…

October 14, 2010

by: Robert Killeen MDIs there anyone amongst the readership that can direct me to a list, a compendium of purely…

August 19, 2010

Thanks to Wikimedia commons for picture, A puffer fish kissing the glass. No intentional relationship to the post, Just loved…

July 23, 2010

WHY NOT PALLIATIVE ONCOLOGY? The goal of palliative care is to relieve symptoms, reduce suffering and improve a patient’s quality…

July 8, 2010

I am hoping to get some advice from our Palliative Medicine expert readers on a problem that seems really vexing.…

February 17, 2010

We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…

February 12, 2010

“But what will you be doing to cure my disease?” the interpreter said, relaying the words of our patient. Was…

January 29, 2010

A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…

October 4, 2009

While it has taken years to popularize the word “palliative” (I have to confess that the word still does not…