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Monday, March 28, 2011

Management of COPD: Lets Just Pretend Older Patients Don't Exist

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Friday, March 25, 2011

A Matter of Life-and-Death: The Ethics of End-of-Life Care

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

American Geriatrics Society’s Palliative Care SIG

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Prognosis is Unimportant

Posted by sei 9 Comments

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Poll: Will You Take a Pill That Adds 500 Years to Your Life?

Posted by Alex Smith 12 Comments

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Doris and Alice on Big Pharma and Motorized Scooters

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Past is Hard to Forget when Evaluating New Dementia Screening Tests

Posted by Eric Widera 8 Comments

Sunday, March 13, 2011

A New Treatment For Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly?: The (IR)relevance of Clincial Resarch to Geriatric Populations

Posted by ken covinsky 4 Comments

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Palliative Care Consultations: An Answer to Medicaid's Woes

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GeriPal (Geriatrics and Palliative care) is a forum for discourse, recent news and research, and freethinking commentary. Our objectives are: 1) to create an online community of interdisciplinary providers interested in geriatrics or palliative care; 2) to provide an open forum for the exchange of ideas and disruptive commentary that changes clinical practice and health care policy; and 3) to change the world.

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