A Call for Hospice Reform: Nurse Practitioners Lead the Way
Last week a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end…
Last week a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end…
I just read Chris Feudtner’s brief piece, “The Breadth of Hopes,” in the New England Journal. Among other things, the…
The New England Journal of Medicine released a study today revealing some awareness in a minority of patients diagnosed with…
A new workshop on the usage of online social media has been added to the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly this March.…
A friend recently forwarded me an update to a story first reported in the Washington Post in May 2009 about…
Eric Widera recently posted about the media’s irresponsible headlines implying that opioids cause cancer growth. This is our most read…
There is much to say – both good and not-so – about last Sunday’s (December 27) NY Times front page…
The Wall Street Journal published an article today entitled “Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man.” The article describes…
“Death is not a single event, but a process that may be interrupted, even reversed. And here’s the exciting part…
It was the a Monday morning in November when I got the first call from my uncle Gili – my…