Physician as Healer or Harmer? The Ethical Context of Aid in Dying
by: Elizabeth Dzeng, @LizDzeng As ethicists like to point out, what is the law is not always ethical and what is…
by: Elizabeth Dzeng, @LizDzeng As ethicists like to point out, what is the law is not always ethical and what is…
by Danny Cox (@DannyMD) I’ll be honest. When I started my fellowship in palliative care 4 short months ago, I…
Washington D.C. was an exciting place at the end of October. Sure there was a whirlwind deal to shore up…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD The Center to Advance Palliative Care and the National Palliative Care Research Center just released their…
Source: Wikimedia by: Sei Lee I wanted to alert folks to a wonderful “Piece of My Mind” article in JAMA…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD It’s summer, and the new fellows have started. I usually post around this time about a…
We’re in trouble. There just aren’t enough specialists in palliative care to palliate all the suffering out there. One estimate…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD This is the 8th installment in my occasional post-being-on-service-digestion-of-what-just-happened-via-blogging potpourri from clinical work series. TVs. Our…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD We’ve talked previously on GeriPal about Dumb Medicine: continuing preventative treatments near the end of life.…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD An article was published yesterday that provides supporting evidence that a treatment* for advanced cancer improves…