What is your patient’s PPD status?
February 21, 2013
Bree Johnston, a true believer in geriatrics and palliative care, contributor to GeriPal, and erstwhile colleague at UCSF, recently returned…
Gearing Up for the AAHPM Annual Meeting
February 18, 2013
This is the first in a series of posts focused on the upcoming American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s…
More Tales of Medical Excess: Cancer Screening and the Dangers of Check Box Medicine
February 12, 2013
A distressing study recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine once again demonstrates the remarkable proclivity of the…
Sport – A Poem on Frailty
February 12, 2013
An extremely pleasant 89 year old patient of mine has recently been struggling with functional decline. She has developed some new swelling…
“A History of the Present Illness”, a New Book by Dr. Louise Aronson
February 1, 2013
It’s here, it’s here! Dr. Louise Aronson, a geriatrician here in our division at UCSF, just released her book A…
The Geriatrics Scholarship Award Summit: Getting Interns and Residents Excited about Academic Geriatrics
January 31, 2013
Awardees and Faculty at the 2011Scholarship Summit I am excited to announce the third annual Bechtel Geriatrics Scholarship Award Summit…
What’s in a Name: The Branding Issues of Geriatrics and Palliative Care
January 30, 2013
One common issue that comes up in both palliative care and geriatrics is how to address the lack of name…
What is in the Palliative Care Syringe?
January 29, 2013
Pay attention! (image only tangentially related to the post, thanks wikimedia) Remember the landmark trial at MGH by Jennifer Temel that demonstrated…
The Do No Harm Project
January 28, 2013
I would like to introduce the Geripal community to a wonderful new project that two of my friends and colleagues…
The Need for Medical-Legal Dialogue in Care of Older Adults
January 25, 2013
“They are just so judgmental and hard to talk to. They’ve got their own agenda and it’s not always about…