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I am fond of reading Larry Beresford http://growth...

2009-09-12T17:58:18.627-07:00

I am fond of reading Larry Beresford http://growthhouse.typepad.com/larry_beresford/
He is a "a freelance medical writer and health care journalist with an unprecedented breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, administrative and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death and dying". He's an active tweeter, really wish he'd blog more often. His latest tweet includes a link to the newly published OIG report on medicare hospice care in nursing facilities.
Check it out at http://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-02-06-00221.pdf

Hi All, I read this last night on the NY Times and...

2009-09-10T16:15:06.833-07:00

Hi All, I read this last night on the NY Times and remember reading this short story in high school and how much it troubled me then. I wonder if this disquiet is related to the psychic suffering I feel when I see patients suffer in the ICU. Check out this lovely blog post, Prolonging Death at the End of Life .

-Chrissy Kistler

Great post at the Health Affairs Blog about key geriatrics and palliative care issues in proposed health reform legislation. They interview Christine Cassel, MD, President American Board of Internal Medicine, Diane Meier, MD, Director of Center to Advance Palliative Care, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Jerald Winakur, MD, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at University of Texas.

good link shared on BLOGGER.Com :)

2009-09-01T23:21:11.453-07:00

good link shared on BLOGGER.Com :)

Hmm... My hypertext link didn't work, so here&...

2009-09-01T13:40:39.439-07:00

Hmm... My hypertext link didn't work, so here's the long of it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8232483.stm

And in an effort to be more palliative care relate...

2009-09-01T13:39:00.294-07:00

And in an effort to be more palliative care related and heart warming, please check out this article:

Husband in Longest Marriage Dies

It's just so lovely.

-Chrissy Kistler

So I'm not sure if this is exactly palliative ...

2009-09-01T13:25:06.888-07:00

So I'm not sure if this is exactly palliative care related, but as it disturbs me in my heart of hearts, I want to go ahead and post it:

A Drugmaker's Playbook Reveals a Marketing Strategy

-Chrissy Kistler