Q&A with Jeff Gordon – Author of “A Death Prolonged”
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels…
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels…
Last week a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end…
A new workshop on the usage of online social media has been added to the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly this March.…
It was the a Monday morning in November when I got the first call from my uncle Gili – my…
For those geriatric and palliative care practitioners who glossed over the recent NEJM publication of the Heartmate II trialas yet…
CBS did a segment entitled “The Cost Of Dying” on tonight’s 60 Minutes. Considering the title of the segment and…
It never occurred to me until today that enrolling my patients in hospice could cause them harm and distress. What…
It goes without saying one can’t put a price on the last months, weeks and days of a life shared…
The hysteria around “death panels” has largely died down (no pun intended). This largely coincided with the removal of the…
GeriPal has put together a taste test on “Liquid Bowel Medications” which was inspired from a great selection of comments…