Pallimed-GeriPal Party at the Annual Assembly of AAHPM-HPNA-SWHPN
January 26, 2015
Time to gather your peers and join fellow readers of Pallimed and GeriPal for our annual party at the Annual…
Working with rather than against speech & swallow therapists #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 23, 2015
By Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Sarah Stranberg, Speech Pathologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Consider the following vignettes, common in…
Do thickened liquids benefit people with swallowing problems? #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 21, 2015
There are a lot of people with swallowing difficulty who are currently getting thickened liquids. For instance, in one study…
The Thickened Liquid Challenge – #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
January 20, 2015
Our hospice and palliative care team decided this weekend to do the “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This is a simple challenge…
Institutionalized and Interventionalized: the ways we care for the medically fragile
January 17, 2015
by: Diane Stonecipher, RN As a young nurse, some 30 years ago, I worked in a large academic medical center,…
Choosing life: a story of the value of palliative care
January 14, 2015
by Leanne M. Yanni, MD It’s a name. It comes across in our Electronic Health Record as a consult is…
Let’s Talk About Prognosis
January 8, 2015
GeriPal’s very own Alex Smith recently gave an absolutely fabulous “Ted-like” talk in which he made the statement that “prognosis…
What you can do today to pull the plug on Sarah Palin’s “death panel” myth
December 19, 2014
Perhaps enough time has passed that when you think about Sarah Palin, her antics seem almost cute in their absurdity. …
Make Advance Care Planning Routine
December 4, 2014
The following is part of a three-post progressive blog about the Center for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) choosing not to…
Wanting to survive more than just 30 days
December 1, 2014
by: Gretchen Schwarze, @GretchenSchwa10 My husband, also a surgeon, was recently discussing donor-nephrectomy with a healthy 65 year-old woman in…