We have learned a lot of lessons in Hospice and Palliative Care about how political discourse can impact our field and the care we give to individuals with serious illnesses. You only have to go back to January of 2011 to see how the hysteri…
Continue ReadingThis is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts. The first discussed the importance of a NEJM article advocating for the greater use of copyleft licenses in medicine. The second detailed the d…
Continue ReadingA couple of days ago we covered Dr. John Newman’s NEJM perspectives piece that focused attention on how a company, PAR, is trying to charge clinicians everytime they use the MMSE in clinical practice. To make matters worse, PAR is also trying to take…
Continue ReadingI think we all probably agree that health care providers should give patients with a life limiting illness the option to discuss their prognosis. But what about discussing prognosis with those patients who may not have any particular life limiting i…
Continue ReadingThere have been a lot of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions proposed for the all too common behavioral complications of dementia. Some non-pharmacologic methods have shown to be successful in reducing not only the number of troubling…
Continue ReadingDr. Mark Beers
Should you always avoid the use of metaclopromide in the elderly (I still use it in some circumstances)? What about scopolamine – avoid always or consider for some instances like motion sickness? And what about Mega…
Continue ReadingEvery week we have been posting a lot of questions on GeriPal about some of the biggest issues in geriatrics and palliative care. These range from how to define our professions (both in geriatrics and palliative care), how to communicate with pat…
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