Purity of Intention is A Shaky Foundation
May 17, 2012
I wrote previously of the anti-choice attack on palliative care and the vulnerability of providers whose protection rests on proof…
A Thin Reed to Hang On
May 16, 2012
It’s no news to most GeriPal readers that a cadre of anti-choice forces targets end-of-life care. In their sights are…
The Fellowship Match: Geriatrics Is In, Palliative Care is Still Out
May 2, 2012
The biggest announcement so far at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting is that Geriatricswill be entering into the fellowship…
An Appeal to Bring Medical Eduction into Nursing Homes
May 1, 2012
What happens when the head of one of the most prominent medical education journals publishes a call for every medical…
Blogs to Boards: Question 7
April 14, 2012
This is the seventh in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice…
Blogs to Boards: Question 5
April 7, 2012
This is the fifth in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice…
Honoring Wishes: A Story by Nancy Lundebjerg
April 3, 2012
Have you ever read something that made you very sad? I did at the end of last week. It was…
Blogs to Boards: Question 3
March 30, 2012
This is the third in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice…
Blogs to Boards: Question 1
March 16, 2012
This is the first in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice…
Who Wants to Talk about Sex?
March 4, 2012
Early in my career, I cared for a gentleman with advanced pancreatic cancer. The recurrence of his cancer was devastating,…