On Cooks and Cookbooks: Failure of a Palliative Care Pathway
October 30, 2013
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Wouldn’t it be great if we came up with a standardized approach to caring for hospitalized…
Appearances can be deceiving: aging, homelessness, and acute care
June 17, 2013
Before reading any further, stop to think about the last older homeless adult you saw. If you are a…
Metal on Metal Hip Replacements: A Tragic Failure of the FDA Regulatory Process
January 13, 2013
Hip replacements are a miracle of modern medicine. They restore mobility to persons with disabling hip arthritis and free them…
If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care
January 11, 2013
I was lucky enough to attend UCSF's School of Medicine Leadership Retreat today which was facilitated by the design firm…
Hospital Medicine is Part of Primary Care
August 22, 2011
There has been a lot of policy discussions about the emergence of the hospitalist movement. A decade ago, when a…
From Twitter to Tenure – The Wrap Up
May 6, 2011
I have the distinct honor of wrapping up the online prelude for the SGIM Social Media Workshop “From Twitter to…
Telemonitoring: Sounds Great. But it doesn’t work.
December 12, 2010
Telemonitoring is a novel disease management strategy that sounds wonderful. But just because something sounds wonderful does not mean it…
Older Adults and Quality of Life are New Topics in Healthy People 2020!
December 9, 2010
Healthy People 2020 has been released, and there is good news for GeriPals. (See Ken's post soliciting suggestions from GeriPal readers…
Desktop Medicine: Here to Stay
November 21, 2010
I want to draw readers attention to a brilliant essay in JAMA by Jason Karlawish. He describes a new concept of…
Palliative Care Prolongs Life
August 19, 2010
Thanks to Wikimedia commons for picture, A puffer fish kissing the glass. No intentional relationship to the post, Just loved…