Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah
June 30, 2022
You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. She falls and breaks her hip. Should…
Gretchen Schwarze on Uncertainty, Scenario Planning, and American Pie
October 11, 2017
Advance Care Planning · Communication · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Surgery
This week’s GeriPal podcast features vascular surgeon, researcher, and bioethicist Gretchen Schwarze from the University of Wisconsin. We talk with…
Geripal Podcast: Zara Cooper on Trauma Surgery and Geripal
September 1, 2017
If you were talking to a geriatric trauma surgeon, wouldn’t you think you’d be talking about surgery in older adults…
Timing is everything
February 10, 2015
by: Jason Johanning, vascular surgeon, University of Nebraska We as surgeons know that the timing of an intervention is an…
Wanting to survive more than just 30 days
December 1, 2014
by: Gretchen Schwarze, @GretchenSchwa10 My husband, also a surgeon, was recently discussing donor-nephrectomy with a healthy 65 year-old woman in…
Surgical decision-making for elders: GeriBoards, prehab, and other great ideas
August 8, 2014
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD A while back people realized that outcomes of surgery in older people were probably better than previously…
Just “Fix-it”
July 9, 2014
by: Gretchen Schwarze (Vascular Surgeon) She seemed awfully angry and at the very least dubious that I couldn’t do more…
Metal on Metal Hip Replacements: A Tragic Failure of the FDA Regulatory Process
January 13, 2013
Hip replacements are a miracle of modern medicine. They restore mobility to persons with disabling hip arthritis and free them…
Sometimes It’s Just a Way to Die
September 29, 2012
During my senior year of residency, I brought an elderly gentleman to the operating room with peritonitis and a benign-appearing…
Three times higher rates of surgery before death in Munster, Indiana than Honolulu, Hawaii
October 8, 2011
A McMansion in Munster, IN, from Wikimedia Commons Honolulu, HI, from Wikimedia Commons Following up on our previous post about…