Hospice and the Transgendered
by: Robert Killeen MD Hospice is beset by many societal obstacles in its care of the transgendered patient. I saw…
Sorry, no podcast this week. Rather, we are asking a favor of you. It’s been several years since we did…
by: Robert Killeen MD Hospice is beset by many societal obstacles in its care of the transgendered patient. I saw…
“Doctors are terrible at prognostication.” This is a line that I often hear from other doctors in clinical practice. While…
by: Ken Covinsky (@geri_doc) Over half of persons with type 2 Diabetes are over the age of 65. You would…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) An 85-year-old woman with moderate Alzheimer’s disease who enjoys walking in her nursing home’s garden with…
By: Bree Johnston One issue that I think we have not examined sufficiently is the impact that repeated discussions about…
by: Josh Lakin, MD Palliative Care Fellow, UCSF This week has been full of active discussion around “the code”. As…
by: Alex Smith, @alexsmithMD Eric kicked off the week posting about a study comparing use of the phrase “Allow Natural…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) In the first two posts of “code discussion week” we talked about how preferences for cardiopulmonary…
by: Alex Smith @alexsmithMD What if the above form was the default for patients with serious illness? Most current advance directive…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) We intuitively know that the words we choose when talking about whether or not to attempt…