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Geripal Blog: Atul Gawande New Yorker Article "Letting Go"
I want to draw people's attention to a fantastic new piece in the New Yorker by Atul Gawande titled...
Geripal Blog: The breadth of life-sustaining treatment
In a recent story in the New York Times, Katy Butler described her parents' experiences with...
GeriPal: The Opposite of Love
The Opposite of Love
Posted: 17 May 2010
The Emergency Department phoned my office right before...
GeriPal Blog: Advance directives say “I’m not dead yet”
“Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.” So said Angela Fagerlin...
GeriPal Blog: Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness – A Book Review
On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our...
CancerDoc Blog: "Denmark"
Saturday, March 20, 2010
"Denmark"
R.N. just died.
She was my first breast cancer...
Palliative Care Grand Rounds: April 2010
Click here for the April edition of Palliative Care Grand Rounds. This month is hosted by...
Geripal Blog: Q&A with Jeff Gordon - Author of "A Death Prolonged"
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too...
Geripal Blog: Social Workers Are Awesome
Social Workers Are Awesome
Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:00 AM PDT
In 1927, Francis Peabody remarked that...
GeriPal: What a nursing assistant will tell us...if we ask
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:34 PM PST
A friend recently forwarded me an update to a story first reported...