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: The most recent (November 18) blog entry from Angela Morrow, RN about a hospice dog, Baxter, who brought cheer to dozens of human beings as they approached the end of life. Link: Visit Site
Synopsis: This video is a short segment taken from the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation 2009 Symposium on the 'Art of Medicine at the End of Life' held at the New York Academy of Medicine. In this clip Diane Meier talks candidly about "having the hard conversation" when a Doctor has to inform a patient that he or
Description: Thursday October 29, 2009: A former colleague with many years of hospital executive experience recently accepted a position as the chief executive of a mid-sized, not-for-profit hospice (115 ADC). Upon review of employee staffing, she noticed that the hospice had half-dozen "arrangements" with physicians (with varying commitments but all under 15 hours per week)
Description: Thursday October 29, 2009: Will reform help or hinder the practice of Hospice and Palliative Medicine(HPM)? Help, if HPM physicians reconfigure themselves into "sought-after practices". The reconfiguration must be willful and carefully planned, and in advance of implementation of national health reform. In other words, bets must be placed now that the health care
Description: This is a link to a blog entry by CancerDoc, "a budding oncologist trying to make sense of the world." It is a brutally honest post about an experience CancerDoc had watching a patient die in front of his daughter. It's a bit gruesome, but is incredibly compelling. It is an example of a
Description: Thursday November 19, 2009: It never occurred to me until today that enrolling my patients in hospice could cause them harm and distress. What unfolded is what happens all the time but which I hadn't recognized could have such a negative effect. My patient had been receiving home health through one agency for chronic
Description: In this April 2nd, 2009 podcast on NPR's Fresh Air, author, Doctor and bioethicist, Robert Martensen, speaks with Terry Gross about the challenges and complexities of medical care at the end of life; a topic Doctor Martensen explores more deeply in his book, A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a
Description: Who can pass up the chance to give $50K to their favorite palliative care leader or organization if it turns out that it won't cost you a dime? The Regence Foundation has established a new program, the Sojourns Award, aimed to promote palliative and end-of-life care in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. It is
Description: November 10, 2009: Hospices across the country care for terminally ill veterans during the final weeks and months of their lives. In honor of Veterans Day, we want to share the story of Cpl. Adam Austin and Staff Sgt. Deuntae Preston, both members of the United States Marine Corps. They serve as volunteers through
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