Hiding Behind High Value Care: A Podcast with Vinny Arora and Chris Moriates
September 19, 2019
You’re the attending physician on a teaching service. Your resident says we shouldn’t order a CT because CT’s are over-used…
Communicating with Home Health: Podcast with Cynthia Boyd
May 2, 2018
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Cynthia Boyd, Professor of Medicine and Geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University School…
Hospital Medicine is Part of Primary Care
August 22, 2011
There has been a lot of policy discussions about the emergence of the hospitalist movement. A decade ago, when a…
A novel therapeutic intervention: More time with patients
November 15, 2010
What would happen to the quality of patient care in the United States if we had more time to spend…
Call for Nominations for Primary Palliative Care Improvement Expert Panel
October 25, 2010
I’m passing on this call for nominations from the American Board of Internal Medicine for an expert to serve on…
Caring.com: e-caregiving website and “customized” dementia information
October 8, 2010
As a practicing primary care geriatrician, I am always on the lookout for good resources that can help support my…
Rx for US Health Care: Grand Junction?
October 1, 2010
Atul Gawande’s latest piece on Palliative Careis fantastic, and I hope you have read his “McAllen, Texas piece” on the…
May’s Health Affairs, A Case of Medical Homelessness, and Reinventing Primary Care
May 24, 2010
May 4th’s Health Affairs contains a lot of food for thought for Geriatricians and Palliative Care providers thinking about 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…
Mammograms in Women with Dementia: What’s the Problem?
January 29, 2010
All Posts · Cancer · Care Managers · Dementia · Geriatrics · Mental Health · Primary Care · Prognosis · Screening · Seniors
A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…