The Aging Homeless: Geriatrics on the Streets
The demographic picture of the homeless has shifted markedly over the last 20 years, with a marked increase in the…
The demographic picture of the homeless has shifted markedly over the last 20 years, with a marked increase in the…
***Warning: the below blog includes the direct Emergency Room documentation of an attempt to resuscitate a patient who died*** I…
We have learned a lot of lessons in Hospice and Palliative Care about how political discourse can impact our field…
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The 2012 recipients of the third annual Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards were just recently announced. I was honored to…
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This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts.…
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