Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness…
One of our first GeriPal posts was titled “Rant on Terminology,” by Patrice Villars, NP. In the spirit of looking…
by: Bridget Sumser, LMSW The world of palliative care is well served in reviewing thoughtfully, the language we use on…
Full credit to the Onion for the title idea for this post, and thanks to James Mittelberger for the tip…
Let’s do something together. Let’s ban the phrase “do everything.” Judy Citko gave me a heads up about an articlein the pediatric…
In a recent paper, some colleagues and I held the position that clinicians should routinely offer to discuss prognosis with…
Much has been made of the potential of the genome, perhaps none of it more tantalizing than the concept of…
I want to alert readers of a fantastic debate that just started at the New York Times New Old Age Blog about…
“But what will you be doing to cure my disease?” the interpreter said, relaying the words of our patient. Was…