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Peace

October 10, 2013

I walked into her room. She was lying in her bed, her silver hair in one long, beautiful braid down…

October 8, 2013

by: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Advanced dementia is a terminal illness needing palliative care. Unfortunately, there is a great divide between this…

October 3, 2013

by: Alex Smith @alexsmithmd We need your help. We’ve come a long way with ePrognosis, our online and now mobile…

October 2, 2013

The goal of cancer screening is to identify asymptomatic cancer well before it causes symptoms or death. This means that…

September 16, 2013

by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD The patient was elderly and was hospitalized for a COPD exacerbation. Fortunately, her breathing problems were…

September 14, 2013

On June 12, Betty Jean Collins of Warsaw, Missouri, executed a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Choices (DPOA-HC)…

September 11, 2013

Back in March, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study of long-term outcomes among survivors of in-hospital…

September 9, 2013

Despite recent attention, dying in the United States is a complex and often suboptimal experience for patients and providers alike…

August 30, 2013

Cancer Screening is of little benefit in persons with dementia but can cause very serious harms. Older persons with…

August 28, 2013

by: Amy Getter, RN, MS. is a Hospice nurse who delivers care to the dying. Stories about hospice care at…