What We Can Learn While Driving to Work
October 10, 2011
Here is today’s GeriPal puzzler: what can medicine learn from Click and Clack, the Car Talk guys? Give up? I…
Three times higher rates of surgery before death in Munster, Indiana than Honolulu, Hawaii
October 8, 2011
A McMansion in Munster, IN, from Wikimedia Commons Honolulu, HI, from Wikimedia Commons Following up on our previous post about…
Advance directives reduce end-of-life costs in New York and Los Angeles
October 5, 2011
When have advance directives ever been shown to do anything? They were a complete failure in SUPPORT. Study after study…
Ever visited a patient’s Facebook page? Had a patient visit yours?
October 1, 2011
The other day Eric Widera and I were teaching a course to the medical students about writing for social media…
Too Little Care? Too Much Care?
September 29, 2011
I wanted to get this community’s thoughts on a recent article that made some headlines (see ABC news and New York…
Opioid Dysmotility Dance Video
September 24, 2011
If you see just one YouTube video where a doctor uses his own body to teach, then see Cardiac Arrhythmias…
Social Isolation Faced by Many Gay Elders
September 17, 2011
We have written several pieces in GeriPal about issues such as isolation and loneliness. One aspect that we haven’t really…
China Making it Illegal Not to Care
September 14, 2011
When I was 16 years old, I decided to volunteer in a nursing home. On my first day, I visited…
Befuddlement at Hospital Discharge
September 12, 2011
Hospitalizations present a host of dangers to an older patient, and perhaps one of the most hazardous parts of hospitalization…
Hip Fracture: “A Quintessential Geriatric Illness”
September 7, 2011
Image from the National Library of Medicine nlm.nih.gov I’d like to briefly turn readers attention to two terrific papers published…