Nurses week: celebrating GeriPal nurse scientists
May 9, 2014
Diagram by Florence Nightingale showing that deaths in the British Army during the Crimean war due to preventable infectious diseases…
What pushes doctors to talk about withdrawal of life sustaining treatments?
April 25, 2014
What changes an ICU doctors intention to discuss withdrawal of life support in a family meeting? An interesting study published…
Just for Fun: a Les Misérables parody about hospitalists and ED docs
April 23, 2014
Two weeks ago, Alex Smith and I gave a talk at the California Compassionate Care Coalition’s 6th Annual Conference and…
What to do when your patient is racist?
April 22, 2014
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD I’d like GeriPal reader’s help with an issue that has vexed me since medical school. As…
Medicare hospice payment reform: not seeing eye to eye
April 10, 2014
By: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Eye-popping numbers from the headlines of the New York Times today – 2% of doctors bill…
#Geriatrics and #Palliative Care Consults via #Twitter!
April 1, 2014
by: @AlexSmithMD Here at GeriPal, we have really tried to push the envelope with the use of social media in geriatrics…
3 Blogs Waiting to be Started: PediPal, PalliTech, and GeriPal EM
March 24, 2014
Every once and a while Eric and I are contacted by people hoping to start a blog. Sometime people follow…
New treatments for hep C: aging patients, unconscionable prices, missing voices
March 12, 2014
Promotional video by Gilead pharmaceuticals, makers of a new drug, urging people to talk to their doctor about treatments “We…
Join the GeriPal & Pallimed party at the AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly
March 10, 2014
The 8th annual GeriPal / Pallimed party is back on for this year’s AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly. We are…
Does citalopram help with agitation in Alzheimer disease?
March 7, 2014
Most patients with Alzheimer’s disease will develop neuropsychiatric symptoms, including agitation, at some point in their illness. These symptoms have…