The confusing morass of medical evidence
May 25, 2011
Practitioners of evidence-based medicine use published evidence from the medical literature to guide them as they try to provide the…
Watchful Waiting or Surgery for Prostate Cancer?
May 18, 2011
What should be done in men who have prostate cancer? On first examination, it might seem that the obvious answer…
Why Should I Have to Choose?
May 17, 2011
My interest in geriatrics stems from working in a nursing home as a teenager however my exposure to palliative medicine…
Dying in India: Palliative Care Provides Hope
May 10, 2011
Imagine you have a terminal illness and were given a prognosis of 3 months…or less. In a developed country like…
Loneliness
May 9, 2011
2 recent articles have helped me prioritize addressing loneliness of patients. An opinion piece in this week’s NEJM “The Loneliness…
Undue Influence: Corporate Sponsorship of Professional Society Meetings
May 7, 2011
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There was a great report in one of the most influential medical periodicals today. Not NEJM, or JAMA, or Annals…
From Twitter to Tenure – The Wrap Up
May 6, 2011
I have the distinct honor of wrapping up the online prelude for the SGIM Social Media Workshop “From Twitter to…
Glycemic Control in Frail Elders: Is There a Happy Medium?
May 4, 2011
In frail elders, such as those who are disabled and no longer able to care for themselves independently, “less” medical…
The Third Annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards
May 3, 2011
The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation in collaboration with the Hastings Center and the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life…
A New Tool for Estimating Prognosis in the Elderly
May 2, 2011
“What if your doctor, making use of a Web site that collected a number of tested geriatric scales, could enter…