Report on palliative care in US hospitals: glass 2/3 full or 1/3 empty?
October 2, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD The Center to Advance Palliative Care and the National Palliative Care Research Center just released their…
Hope and Uncertainty
September 30, 2015
Source: Wikimedia by: Sei Lee I wanted to alert folks to a wonderful “Piece of My Mind” article in JAMA…
What’s your favorite reference book in geriatrics and palliative care?
August 3, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD It’s summer, and the new fellows have started. I usually post around this time about a…
A Master of Science Program in Palliative Care?
June 29, 2015
We’re in trouble. There just aren’t enough specialists in palliative care to palliate all the suffering out there. One estimate…
Potpourri from clinical work VIII: TVs, tissues, timing, losing stuff, & no to hospice
April 10, 2015
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…
Stopping statins in serious illness doesn’t change survival…or does it? Sorting out the message
March 26, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD We’ve talked previously on GeriPal about Dumb Medicine: continuing preventative treatments near the end of life…
BREAKING: cancer therapy prolongs survival 6 months, worth 2-3 billion/year
March 25, 2015
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD An article was published yesterday that provides supporting evidence that a treatment* for advanced cancer improves…
Timing is everything
February 10, 2015
by: Jason Johanning, vascular surgeon, University of Nebraska We as surgeons know that the timing of an intervention is an…
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…
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. …