Is Deactivating a Cardiac Pacemaker Euthanasia?
“He’d feel okay about not replacing the pacemaker’s battery when it ran down, he said. But turning it off, he…
“He’d feel okay about not replacing the pacemaker’s battery when it ran down, he said. But turning it off, he…
The following post is adapted from something I read at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Geriatrics, Palliative, and Extended Care…
Shunryu Suzuki by Robert Boni “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” is a collection of talks by the late Zen MasterShunryu Suzuki. The…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Eric kicked off the week posting about a study comparing use of the phrase “Allow Natural…
Bree Johnston, a true believer in geriatrics and palliative care, contributor to GeriPal, and erstwhile colleague at UCSF, recently returned…
Note: The details of the story have been changed to protect patient anonymity. We recently cared for a patient with…
I was at a dinner a meeting of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars, a bioethics career development program for junior faculty,…
When have advance directives ever been shown to do anything? They were a complete failure in SUPPORT. Study after study…
Dignity Therapy is a brief form of psychotherapy developed by Harvey Chochinov, MD with a goal of conserving a dying…
My dog is dying. When he was diagnosed two months ago with brain lesions, we had an open, practical conversation…