Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle
A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do…
A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do…
Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. Was there any…
In her essay “Why Read a Poem in a Time Like This?”, Marilyn McEntyre writes: All of us need it.…
One of my favorite Piece of My Mind essays in JAMA is by Rebecca Sudore, titled, “Can We Agree to…
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing…
A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that…
There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not…
My mom is an Asian woman in her 70s with osteoporosis. She tried an oral bisphosphonate and had horrible esophagitis. …
In prior podcasts we talked about racism and COVID, lack of diversity in the palliative care workforce, racial and ethnic…
Patients with end stage liver disease and decompensated cirrhosis have an average life expectancy of 2 years without transplant. Outcomes…