An antidote for our emotional distance
June 6, 2014
By: Laurel Coleman, MD I have been pondering Danielle Ofri’s NY Times column, “The Silence of Doctors Around Alzheimer’s”…
The Geriatrician Syndrome
May 21, 2014
I recently attended the AGS Meeting in Orlando as a rising 3rd year medical student. I was there to present my…
Geri and Pal getting together at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting #AGS14
May 14, 2014
The American Geriatrics Society is having its annual meeting this week and it is chock-full of goodies for those interested…
Nurses week: celebrating GeriPal nurse scientists
May 9, 2014
Diagram by Florence Nightingale showing that deaths in the British Army during the Crimean war due to preventable infectious diseases…
What to do when your patient is racist?
April 22, 2014
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD I’d like GeriPal reader’s help with an issue that has vexed me since medical school. As…
#Geriatrics and #Palliative Care Consults via #Twitter!
April 1, 2014
by: @AlexSmithMD Here at GeriPal, we have really tried to push the envelope with the use of social media in geriatrics…
3 Blogs Waiting to be Started: PediPal, PalliTech, and GeriPal EM
March 24, 2014
Every once and a while Eric and I are contacted by people hoping to start a blog. Sometime people follow…
Still Needed: Guidance for the “GeriPal” Patient with Heart Failure
January 30, 2014
As a (geriatric) primary care provider and (palliative medicine) specialist who cares for patients with heart failure (HF), the 2013…
Aging 2.0: Why We Should Engage the Innovators, & 11 Start-ups To Consider
November 25, 2013
If you are interested in the intersection between aging and innovation, these certainly are intriguing times. Last Thursday I attended…
Research Amplifies Need for Patient-Centered Goals of Care Discussion
August 10, 2013
How important is reducing the risk of one ailment if it increases the risk of another? A class of drugs…