Newsweek article on rethinking end of life care
The current issue of Newsweek includes an article titled “The Case for Killing Granny: Rethinking End of Life Care.” It…
The current issue of Newsweek includes an article titled “The Case for Killing Granny: Rethinking End of Life Care.” It…
I’ve always had a fascination with how certain phrases influence practice and how established terms frame and reinforce provider attitudes…
This week’s Lancet includes an article titled “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life”…
Leigh Kramer from the blog “Confessions of a Young (Looking) Social Worker” will be hosting Palliative Care Grand Rounds this…
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…