Q&A with Jeff Gordon – Author of “A Death Prolonged”
March 25, 2010
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too often with extreme levels…
Talking Palliative Care and Death: Get Up, Stand Up, Grow Up
March 11, 2010
Finally. This debate has been waiting to happen ever since NHO added the “PC” to its name back in the…
More on dementia and mammograms
February 17, 2010
All Posts · Cancer · Care Managers · Communication · Dementia · End-of-Life · Geriatrics · Mental Health · Palliative Care · Primary Care · Screening
We recently discusseda study that described the common practice of obtaining screening mammograms in women with dementia. We considered how…
A Call for Hospice Reform: Nurse Practitioners Lead the Way
February 15, 2010
Last week a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end…
The Cultural Distance Between Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
February 5, 2010
I just read Chris Feudtner’s brief piece, “The Breadth of Hopes,” in the New England Journal. Among other things, the…
Persistent Vegetative State: An apt description for the media coverage of PVS
February 4, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine released a study today revealing some awareness in a minority of patients diagnosed with…
Social Media in Palliative Care Communities: A New Workshop at the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly
February 3, 2010
A new workshop on the usage of online social media has been added to the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly this March…
What a nursing assistant will tell us…if we ask
January 29, 2010
A friend recently forwarded me an update to a story first reported in the Washington Post in May 2009 about…
Reviewing the Evidence for Opioids and Cancer Growth
January 6, 2010
Eric Widera recently posted about the media’s irresponsible headlines implying that opioids cause cancer growth. This is our most read…
Palliative or terminal sedation
January 3, 2010
There is much to say – both good and not-so – about last Sunday’s (December 27) NY Times front page…