Keep Your Hands to Yourself
October 27, 2016
This week’s GeriPal podcast is all about mechanical ventilation and dementia. In particular, we discuss a new article in JAMA…
GeriPal Podcast #2: Breath Becomes Air or Nothing Becomes Something
October 18, 2016
In our second GeriPal Podcast, we discuss Professor Thomas Laqueur’s review of Paul Kalanithi’s book “When Breath Becomes Air.” Professor Laqueur’s review,…
GeriPal Podcast Episode 1: Bed Alarms
October 12, 2016
Welcome to GeriPal’s innagural podcast episode titled “Bed Alarms”. This is the first in a series of podcasts on all…
A physicians group’s baseless objections to advance care planning
September 28, 2015
AAPS objections to CMS payment for Advance Care Planning are a wreck. Source: Wikimedia Commons by: Stan Terman, PhD, MD…
“Good evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you?”
October 10, 2012
Tig Notaro was diagnosed just three days before a standup comedy set with invasive cancer in both of her breasts…
May’s Health Affairs, A Case of Medical Homelessness, and Reinventing Primary Care
May 24, 2010
May 4th’s Health Affairs contains a lot of food for thought for Geriatricians and Palliative Care providers thinking about the…