I recently attended the California Coalition for Compassionate Care’s (CCCC), Physicians’ Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) meeting last week…
Obi-Wan: “These are not the droids you’re looking for.” Stormtrooper: “These are not the droids we’re looking for.” Obi-Wan: “He…
Few details are actually known about the proposed settlement of a nationwide class-action lawsuit against Medicare that would do away…
It’s time to up the ante on the push to get more GeriPal readers on twitter. Today, we have Nancy…
Are you still not convinced that you should sign-up for twitter? Will take more than a “genius” for you to…
In a little over a week, geriatricians and some palliative care physicians will be converging in St. Louis for the…
One of the tougher challenges in a busy clinical encounter is the older driver who is potentially unsafe. While clinicians…
I was thrilled to see this week that delirium is getting some love in the NY Times. If you haven’t seen…
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a therapy proposed “as the standard of care for symptomatic patients with aortic stenosis…
I remember when my son was about 2 years old he developed a very minor case of acute otitis media…