Palliative Care Perspective

• At What Point Does Comfort Care Become Murder?   Drs Robert Glatter, Ferdinando Mirarchi, Lewis Nelson, and Thaddeus Pope discuss a recent legal case and how it may affect end-of-life care moving forward.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 18, 2022
• AGS 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AGS 2022
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 11, 2022
• Dodging Potholes From Cancer Care to Hospice Transitions Switching gears from an all-out pursuit of active therapy to focusing on cancer symptoms in a palliative setting is often a scary transition for patients and their families.
  Medscape Oncology, May 10, 2022
• How Medical Training Can Help Students Process Patient Deaths Medical students learn to save lives, not how to respond to death. But med schools should place more emphasis on the mental health challenges that arise from coping with dying patients.
  Medscape Med Students, April 29, 2022
• COVID-19: The Sadness of Dying Alone -- What Can We Do?   Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses the tragedy of people dying alone, especially during COVID, and how we should change that.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 18, 2022
• AAGP 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAGP 2022
  Medscape Psychiatry, March 22, 2022
• Filling Opioid Prescriptions Akin to a Sisyphean Task In the regulatory environment of the opioid epidemic, getting opioid prescriptions filled in a timely manner with the clinician's drug of choice can feel like a Sisyphean task.
  Medscape Oncology, March 10, 2022
• ACG Offers Guidelines for Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure A conversation with the lead author behind the recently published recommendations on how to manage this major cause of mortality in patients with chronic liver disease.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 07, 2022
• Should We Always Offer CPR? The case of an elderly unconscious patient prompts this doctor to question why CPR is the default strategy and brings to mind the hero of a Hemingway short story.
  theheart.org on Medscape, January 25, 2022
• Jumping Downhill: Acute Exacerbations of IPF: End-stage Considerations   UCSF clinicians discuss the importance of appropriate patient education on the potential for lung transplant and palliative care options.
  Medscape TV, January 11, 2022
• The Code Status Conversation -- Do It Before It's Too Late One physician stresses that a code status conversation is a matter of life and death.
  Medscape Blogs, December 07, 2021
• No One Should Die Alone: Changing End-of-Life Care During COVID   Professor Art Caplan discusses end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to ensure that no one dies alone.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, October 26, 2021
• Heart Failure: Fighting for Life: Advanced Strategies   Clinicians discuss options for patients with progressive or refractory disease who may be candidates for surgical interventions to improve their life outcomes.
  Medscape TV, October 15, 2021
• Mobile Phone App Helps to Deliver Palliative Care   Dr David Kerr discusses a recent study of a mobile phone app designed to collect palliative outcomes data in sub-Saharan Africa.
  Medscape Oncology, October 11, 2021
• EuGMS 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EuGMS 2021.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 11, 2021
• Jumping Downhill: Acute Exacerbations of IPF: Treatment Optimization   UCSF pulmonologists discuss the use of antifibrotic therapies, which are known to slow the progression of IPF, in the possible prevention of AEs.
  Medscape TV, October 11, 2021
• Healthcare vs the Grim Reaper Labeling healthcare workers as warriors against death is setting them up for failure and burnout.
  Medscape Blogs, September 23, 2021
• Five Characteristics of an Outstanding Ward Attending What makes a great doctor goes hand in hand with what makes a great educator. Here are five characteristics of a great attending.
  Medscape Blogs, September 16, 2021
• 'Locker Room' Talk About Death: Time for Oncologists to Stop 'Well, it's pretty clear he's going to die.' The brusque phrasing felt atypical coming from the otherwise gentle-hearted trainee.
  Medscape Oncology, September 16, 2021
• Death and Dying in America Dr George Lundberg says planning for the end of life should be a requirement and suggests that as a country, we have a long way to go.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, September 02, 2021