Isolated Elders and the Life Web
February 7, 2012
My mother is in her 50’s and currently resides alone. For the past year, she’s depended largely on the Internet…
Potpourri from Clinical Work VI
February 1, 2012
Just finished another couple of weeks attending on the palliative care service, and wanted to share a couple of thoughts…
The Aging Homeless: Geriatrics on the Streets
January 31, 2012
The demographic picture of the homeless has shifted markedly over the last 20 years, with a marked increase in the…
The Dangers of Rote Medicine
January 28, 2012
***Warning: the below blog includes the direct Emergency Room documentation of an attempt to resuscitate a patient who died*** I…
GOP Candidates on Advance Directives
January 26, 2012
We have learned a lot of lessons in Hospice and Palliative Care about how political discourse can impact our field…
The MMSE Saga: An Assault of the Values of the Academic Profession
January 22, 2012
The MMSE saga has attracted great attention here on GeriPal and elsewhere since the breakthrough NEJM article of Newman and…
The Third Annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award
January 20, 2012
The 2012 recipients of the third annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards were just recently announced. I was honored to…
Eprognosis gets Half a Million Hits in the First Week
January 19, 2012
Eprognosisis barely a week old, and we’ve already had over 500,000 pageviews (150,000 unique visitors). For perspective, GeriPalis about 3…
Prognostic Indices In Patient Care: Useful or Waste of Time?
January 10, 2012
Many clinical decisions in older persons are dependent on life expectancy. For example, as life expectancy declines, cancer screening is…
Copyright and Access to Taxpayer Funded Research
January 8, 2012
This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts…