GeriPal Hits 2 Million Pageviews

Last week GeriPal hit 2 million pageviews.  We celebrated quietly when the counter showed a whole line of 0’s, but I thought it would be worth creating a list of the top 25 most read posts to commemorate the occasion.  Enjoy!

1. The Dangers of Fleet Enemas
2. Length of Stay in Nursing Homes at the End of Life
3. End Stage Dementia: A Terminal Disease Needing Palliative Care 
4. What to give Uncle Ernie, Grandma Mabel and Great Aunt Rose? 
5. Dying without Dialysis 
6. Beers Criteria Contest: Submit the Craziest Medication Combinations 
7. When Surrogates Override the DNR: A Terrific Geriatrics and Palliative Care Teaching Video 
8. MMSE and Copyrights Part II: Is the MMSE Derivative of Some Other Work? 
9. Atul Gawande New Yorker Article “Letting Go”
10. Coffee Is Bad For You. Coffee is Good For You. Why Am I So Confused? 
11. Survival from severe sepsis: The infection is cured but all is not well 
12. Why is Forest Laboratories discontinuing Namenda? 
13. TAVR: Life-prolonging and palliative or risky and costly?
14. A New Treatment For Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly?: The (IR)relevance of Clincial Resarch to Geriatric Populations 
15. Death of the Gerontological Nurse Practitioner: Part 1 of 2 
16. Loneliness 
17. Watchful Waiting or Surgery for Prostate Cancer? 
18. “Elders?” “Older Adults?” “Seniors?” Language Matters 
19. A Call for Hospice Reform: Nurse Practitioners Lead the Way 
20. A Study of Dignity Therapy on Distress and the End-of-Life Experience 
21. 3 Issues of Hospice 
22. How do you explain hospice? 
23. Being Accused of Murder 
24. Inappropriate Medications in the Hospice Setting
25. Copyrights and Copylefts in Medicine: The Case of the Wayward MMSE

by: Eric Widera (@ewidera)