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…
Should for-profit hospices be banned? Or are they victims of a witch hunt?
January 6, 2012
10 year stock price of Gentiva, the nation’s fastest growing for-profit hospice provider For-profit hospice has been in the news recently,…
MMSE and Copyrights Part II: Is the MMSE Derivative of Some Other Work?
December 31, 2011
A couple of days ago we coveredDr. John Newman’s NEJM perspectives piece that focused attention on how a company, PAR,…
Copyrights and Copylefts in Medicine: The Case of the Wayward MMSE
December 29, 2011
The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is the most widely used cognitive screening test. Many have attributed this to the relative…