Hi, Carla, et al: You ask, "Howzit going?&qu...

2009-10-27T07:49:21.273-07:00

Hi, Carla, et al:

You ask, "Howzit going?" I think you're doing pretty good.

This is still somewhat uncharted territory, so the rules get made up as we go along.

And there's plenty of room for the many different takes on the same general topic.

Personally, I find your overall highlights and comments on what's up in the literature to be very helpful.

Many thanks.

I mentioned in my survey that I'd be writing a...

2009-10-25T01:17:36.315-07:00

I mentioned in my survey that I'd be writing a post about GeriPal. It's called "Were 'death panels' a teachable moment for palliative care?"

Here's a link:

http://www.thehealthculture.com/2009/10/were-death-panels-a-teachable-moment-for-palliativ.html

(And here's a TinyURL version of the link: http://tinyurl.com/yzgpmlh .)

It ends with a discussion of the Ivan Ilyich post and refers to another recent Lancet essay which "cites Steven Hsi's memoir, Closing the Chart. 'Despite the compassionate care he received, Hsi was most troubled by his physicians' failure to ask the crucial questions: 'What has this disease done to your life? What has it done to your family? What has it done to your work? What has it done to your spirit?' As suggested by Hsi, physicians faced with questions of unexplained suffering and death are loathe to ask existential questions that have no biomedical answer.'

GeriPal is a blog that's not afraid to ask the existential questions."

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