Blogs

Description:  November 23, 2009:  Diane Meier just tweeted: "60 minutes misses the point- palliative care is about matching treatment to patient goals, NOT stopping it." The central question raised by the 60 minute episode and subsequent discussion: how should costs fit into the conversation about end-of-life care? Various positions:   1. We should focus on

Description:  Some conversations are easier than others Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and

Description:  Tuesday December 1, 2009:  Medicare recently started publicly reporting hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality, and there are proposals to financially penalize hospitals with high rates of readmission. A recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine makes a compelling case that an unintended consequence of such a proposal could be to

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

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:  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