The John Hartford Foundation supported the inaugural summit of leaders from geriatrics and palliative medicine in July to encourage opportunities,…
News Headlines read: Sen. Edward Kennedy loses battle with cancer. Really, he lost? I thought he died from a malignant…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care (and primary care) have a problem. We haven't learned how to make our work, our mission,…
With "Death Panels" dominating the healthcare reform debate, I was getting depressed. My hope had continued to rest with the…
Now that we are in an Orwellian world in which words reflect corporate and politically motivated interests rather than reality,…
The aspect of geriatrics and palliative carewhich never ceases to amaze me is how much I learn from my patients…
Long term care is a hot topic. When people talk about long term care, they are generally talking about nursing…
There is very eloquent letter from Richard Stefanacci and colleagues in the June edition of the Journal of the American…
The most recent issue of Annals of Emergency Medicineincluded several interesting articles about the role of geriatrics and palliative care…
On the heals of the Atul Gawande piece in the New Yorker, Dr. Abraham Vergese wrote an interesting cover article…