Blogs

Description:  One out of every four of us will die while residing in a nursing home. For most of us, that stay in a nursing home will be brief, although this may depend upon social and demographic variables like our gender, net worth, and marital status. These are the conclusions of an important new study

Description:  This link is to a guest blog post (November 6, 2009) by Dr. Ira Byock, director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.  In this post, Dr. Byock talks about the House's Affordable Health Care for America Act and the recent section that has been resurrected; reimbursing doctor's for having voluntary

Description:  What is the purpose of Advance Care Planning? I have been taught to view the goal as helping patients define what they would want done if they became seriously ill. But there is an important article by Rebecca Sudore and Terri Fried that convinces me I should think about this very differently. Sudore and

Description:  The following is a blog posting from Jeffry Parks MD, a general surgeon from Cleveland, OH.  It's a case about an elderly patient he successfully cared for using his palliative medical instincts:     "I received a consult one morning on an old guy, ostensibly for "abdominal pain". It was early, before 7:30 and

Description:  This months Palliative Care Grand Rounds is out and hosted by Pallimed -- a Hospice and Palliative Medicine blog-- if you aren't familiar with Pallimed check it out, they always have great posts.  The format of this months blog review is a creative one- Pallimed designated awards to various palliative care blogs that they

Description:  This link is to the August issue of "Palliative Care Grand Rounds", a monthy round-up of insightful and often emotional palliative care blogs from around the web.  This months host, Risa's Pieces, is a palliative care Nurse Practitioner and writes her own personal blog at www.risaden.blogspot.com/.  Blogs are a freeform online journaling that allow

Description:  This link is to the 6th issue of Palliative Care Grand Rounds.  This issue's blogger, Tim Cousounis, is managing director of DAI Palliative Care Group, which is a consulting firm that partners with palliative care teams to boost their success.  His personal blog, Palliative Care Success, can be found at www.palliativemedicine.blogspot.com/.  Blogs are a

Description:  The link below will take you to "Palliative Care Grand Rounds"; a monthy review of palliative care blogs throughout the internet.  This weeks host is geripal (www.geripal.org) a geriatrics and palliative care blog.  Geripal starts the review with a lot of interesting links to blog posts that are focused on the death panel and