Some days I hate POLST
There are days I hate the POLST form (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment). In concept, it’s significantly better than…
There are days I hate the POLST form (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment). In concept, it’s significantly better than…
Every week we have been posting a lot of questions on GeriPal about some of the biggest issues in geriatrics…
In the most recent Sunday New York Times, Jane Gross gives a devastating critiqueof Medicare’s Failure to support the needs…
Should the word “hospice” be taken out of the professional society names: “American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine,” and…
It’s been a while since I posted but I had to share frustration! This week I saw a new patient…
The poster session is a ubiquitous part of most medical and scientific meetings. The format is pretty much always the…
Here is today’s GeriPal puzzler: what can medicine learn from Click and Clack, the Car Talk guys? Give up? I…
A McMansion in Munster, IN, from Wikimedia Commons Honolulu, HI, from Wikimedia Commons Following up on our previous post about…
When have advance directives ever been shown to do anything? They were a complete failure in SUPPORT. Study after study…
The other day Eric Widera and I were teaching a course to the medical students about writing for social media…