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: “Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.” So said Angela Fagerlin and Carl Schneider in 2004. “Living wills are still widely and confidently urged on patients, and they retain the allegiance of many. For these loyal advocates, we offer systematic proof that such persistence in error is but
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: 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: Dr. Milch is the inaugural winner of the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Established Physician Award for excellence in clinical care for patients near the end of life and national leadership in palliative care. In this video provided by The Hastings Center, Andy Baxter (Founder of The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation) and Thomas H. Murray, PhD (CEO of
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
Synopsis: Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself. This talk is very entertaining, interesting and packed with information that supports the healing wonders of the body-- even when illness and disease have already set in. Source: Website: TED ideas worth spreading Vol/Page/Date:
Description: The Opposite of Love Posted: 17 May 2010 The Emergency Department phoned my office right before lunch. I was on call for our general IM group, so when I was done with my morning schedule I walked across the street to the hospital. Greg, my partner's 38 year old patient, was a woodworker admitted
Description: In this audio podcast from StoryCorps, Tom Morgan talks to his friend Tracy Ross about his father's death and the decision to take him off life sustaining treatments. Morgan, who himself suffered from emphysema, died on April 26, 2007. Link: Visit Site
Description: In this audio podcast from StoryCorps, a father recounts to his daughter one of his most memorable days as a Doctor when a young patient's family decides to give knowing that all they truly want is a donor. Link: Visit Site
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