Over the last few months, ever since Medicare started its competitive bidding process my colleagues and I, in the UCSF Housecalls…
My patient was dying and his family was terrified. Riddled with abdominal tumors and engorged gastric blood vessels, Mr. G,…
We just spent the last several days learning facilitation skills at the VITALtalk faculty development course. This truly amazing course…
When I was a resident, it was routine to place urine catheters (a catheter threaded up the urethra, into the…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD In a recent study in the American Journal of Infection Control, researchers coated a gloved hand in…
With 10,000 Baby Boomers turning 65 every day, the fastest growing jobs in the country are also some of the…
“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” by Katie Butler is a book that will resonate with most of our GeriPal readership. In…
“He’d feel okay about not replacing the pacemaker’s battery when it ran down, he said. But turning it off, he…
It’s pacemaker week here at GeriPal. What’s pacemaker week you ask? It’s a fun filled week of posts on pacemakers…
Cool picture of Kingfisher above from Wikimedia Commons – has nothing to do with the post. by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD…