Can your Emergency Physician find your Advance Directive?
October 28, 2016
by: Ryan Van Wert, MD Providing high quality emergency care to individuals with serious, life-limiting illness starts with an understanding of…
Keep Your Hands to Yourself
October 27, 2016
This week’s GeriPal podcast is all about mechanical ventilation and dementia. In particular, we discuss a new article in JAMA…
GeriPal Podcast Episode 1: Bed Alarms
October 12, 2016
Welcome to GeriPal’s innagural podcast episode titled “Bed Alarms”. This is the first in a series of podcasts on all…
An Interview with Roz Chast – Author of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
September 13, 2016
by: Jeffrey M. Levine MD, AGSF I had a chance to interview Roz Chast, the New Yorker cartoonist and best selling…
Inappropriate Prescribing of Transdermal Fentanyl in Opioid Naïve Nursing Home Residents
August 11, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) If you had to guess what long acting opioid is most commonly started on in nursing…
Antipsychotics for Sleep: When Did This Become a Thing?
July 21, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Sleep. It’s sometimes hard enough to get enough at home with all the distractions of…
Please Don’t Talk About Aging!!!
July 8, 2016
by: Ken Covinsky @geri_doc A colleague of mine, who is chief of the Geriatrics Division at a major medical school,…
Who prescribes donepezil or memantine for dementia? Not Geriatricians from the Bronx…
June 28, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) There are two main drug classes use to treat Alzheimer’s disease, cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) and the…
Yet another harm of docusate
June 22, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) We’ve written about the harms and lack of efficacy of docusate a fair amount on Geripal…
How We Die: It’s Less about Who You Are and More About Where You Live
May 16, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Doctors want to believe that they will die differently than the rest of the US. Just…