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I wrote previously of the anti-choice attack on palliative
care and the vulnerability of providers whose protection rests on proof of
their “intent” when providing palliation. The powerful forces...
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It’s no news to most GeriPal readers that a cadre of anti-choice
forces targets end-of-life care. In their sights are common end-of-life
decisions and palliative support for those decisions. The y...
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I was at a dinner a meeting of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars, a bioethics career development program for junior faculty, when an interesting issue came up. Several folks at our table argued tha t...
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Me with Ruth Hancock out side of KBR*
As many of you in health care are probably familiar, this week is National Nurse's Week capped by National Nurse's Day on Saturday May 12th, the birthday of Flor ence...
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[Ed. note: This post is a reimagining of a post at Geripal. Same facts - some simliar sentences - wholly different approach.]
This week the American Geriatric Society is holding their annual meeting and...
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The biggest announcement so far at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting is that Geriatrics will be entering into the fellowship match for the 2014 academic year! This is huge news for geria trics...
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This is the fourth in a series of 41 posts from both GeriPal and Pallimed to get our physician readers ready for the hospice and palliative medicine boards. Every week GeriPal and Pallimed...
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If you have worked in hospice for a few weeks or health care for a few years you will probably come across this question at some point. What is the right age to take children* to a funeral? This question...
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As you may have heard Facebook is going public as early as next week. In a curious (or expected) show of goodwill and an attempt to make use of Google's (slightly ironic) mantra "Don't be evil," Facebook...
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What happens when the head of one of the most prominent medical education journals publishes a call for every medical school and teaching hospital to develop educational experiences in nursing homes? Will...
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