Medicare hospice payment reform: not seeing eye to eye
By: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Eye-popping numbers from the headlines of the New York Times today – 2% of doctors bill…
Sorry, no podcast this week. Rather, we are asking a favor of you. It’s been several years since we did…
By: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD Eye-popping numbers from the headlines of the New York Times today – 2% of doctors bill…
by: @AlexSmithMD Here at GeriPal, we have really tried to push the envelope with the use of social media in geriatrics…
Every once and a while Eric and I are contacted by people hoping to start a blog. Sometime people follow…
Promotional video by Gilead pharmaceuticals, makers of a new drug, urging people to talk to their doctor about treatments “We…
The 8th annual GeriPal / Pallimed party is back on for this year’s AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN 2014 Annual Assembly. We are…
Most patients with Alzheimer’s disease will develop neuropsychiatric symptoms, including agitation, at some point in their illness. These symptoms have…
Tragedies at the end of life come in many shapes and sizes. For Betty, an elderly woman with end stage…
This is the way it went: a group of familiar faces, some family, some professional care providers, gathered around the…
An innovative study in JAMA Internal Medicine on surrogate decision making has profound implications for how we take care of…
Attention all Geriatric, Palliative Medicine, and Primary Care Providers: Act now to prevent the adoption of strict, punitive regulations impacting…