The MMSE Saga: An Assault of the Values of the Academic Profession
The MMSE saga has attracted great attention here on GeriPal and elsewhere since the breakthrough NEJM article of Newman and…
Sorry, no podcast this week. Rather, we are asking a favor of you. It’s been several years since we did…
The MMSE saga has attracted great attention here on GeriPal and elsewhere since the breakthrough NEJM article of Newman and…
The 2012 recipients of the third annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards were just recently announced. I was honored to…
Eprognosisis barely a week old, and we’ve already had over 500,000 pageviews (150,000 unique visitors). For perspective, GeriPalis about 3…
Many clinical decisions in older persons are dependent on life expectancy. For example, as life expectancy declines, cancer screening is…
This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts.…
10 year stock price of Gentiva, the nation’s fastest growing for-profit hospice provider For-profit hospice has been in the news recently,…
A couple of days ago we coveredDr. John Newman’s NEJM perspectives piece that focused attention on how a company, PAR,…
The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is the most widely used cognitive screening test. Many have attributed this to the relative…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not because those damn kids jingle belling and everyone telling you…
Sometimes the best ideas are so simple that you both marvel at their eloquence and wonder why you never thought…