Using the Skills Learned at VITALtalk to Take Out the Trash
We just spent the last several days learning facilitation skills at the VITALtalk faculty development course. This truly amazing course…
Sorry, no podcast this week. Rather, we are asking a favor of you. It’s been several years since we did…
We just spent the last several days learning facilitation skills at the VITALtalk faculty development course. This truly amazing course…
When I was a resident, it was routine to place urine catheters (a catheter threaded up the urethra, into the…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD In a recent study in the American Journal of Infection Control, researchers coated a gloved hand in…
With 10,000 Baby Boomers turning 65 every day, the fastest growing jobs in the country are also some of the…
“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” by Katie Butler is a book that will resonate with most of our GeriPal readership. In…
“He’d feel okay about not replacing the pacemaker’s battery when it ran down, he said. But turning it off, he…
It’s pacemaker week here at GeriPal. What’s pacemaker week you ask? It’s a fun filled week of posts on pacemakers.…
Cool picture of Kingfisher above from Wikimedia Commons – has nothing to do with the post. by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD I just read a wonderful categorization of books about aging on Lousie Aronson’s blog. She categorizes…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD A while back people realized that outcomes of surgery in older people were probably better than previously…