Watchful Waiting or Surgery for Prostate Cancer?
May 18, 2011
What should be done in men who have prostate cancer? On first examination, it might seem that the obvious answer…
Dying in India: Palliative Care Provides Hope
May 10, 2011
Imagine you have a terminal illness and were given a prognosis of 3 months…or less. In a developed country like…
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…
CAM Resources
December 16, 2010
The subject of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) has a plethora of articles in the lay literature, read intensively by…
Palliative Chemotherapy
October 14, 2010
by: Robert Killeen MDIs there anyone amongst the readership that can direct me to a list, a compendium of purely…
Palliative Care Prolongs Life
August 19, 2010
Thanks to Wikimedia commons for picture, A puffer fish kissing the glass. No intentional relationship to the post, Just loved…
Why not palliative oncology?
July 23, 2010
WHY NOT PALLIATIVE ONCOLOGY? The goal of palliative care is to relieve symptoms, reduce suffering and improve a patient’s quality…
Management of Mucositis: Requesting Your Wisdom
July 8, 2010
I am hoping to get some advice from our Palliative Medicine expert readers on a problem that seems really vexing…
More on dementia and mammograms
February 17, 2010
All Posts · Cancer · Care Managers · Communication · Dementia · End-of-Life · Geriatrics · Mental Health · Palliative Care · Primary Care · Screening
We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…
Medicine In Translation
February 12, 2010
“But what will you be doing to cure my disease?” the interpreter said, relaying the words of our patient. Was…