Visits by Hospice Professional Staff Matter: Why I believe that More is Better
February 9, 2016
by: Joan M Teno (@JoanMTeno) A high quality hospice provides the best end of life care – something that I…
Potpourri from clinical work IX: BiPaP, Movantik, and Lord Grantham
February 5, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD This is the ninth iteration in the potpourri from clinical work series, where I basically raise…
The Opioids Issue: Morphine versus All Comers
February 3, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Next year marks morphine’s 200th anniversary as an analgesic (while it was discovered in 1804, it…
VitalTalk: Mastering Serious Illness Communication
January 29, 2016
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) It was with some hesitancy I decided last year to take the VitalTalk Faculty Development course…
Reaction to JAMA theme issue on Death, Dying, and End of Life
January 22, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD JAMA just came out with a theme issue subtitled Death, Dying, and End of Life. Here…
When Breath Becomes Air: A Review
January 13, 2016
“And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of…
Timing of Palliative Care Consultations – Is Earlier Better?
January 6, 2016
Growth in inpatient palliative care over the last decade has been remarkable. A study published this monthshowed that in 1998…
Families caring for families
December 28, 2015
by: Amy Getter, who blogs regularly at hospicediary.com “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”…
PTSD at the end of life
December 17, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I want to draw GeriPal readers attention to a remarkably powerful storyin the current issue of…
A Palliative Care Fellow’s Perspective on Physician-Assisted Death
December 10, 2015
by Danny Cox (@DannyMD) I’ll be honest. When I started my fellowship in palliative care 4 short months ago, I…