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Palliative Care Grand Rounds | GeriPal - Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Palliative Care Grand Rounds. Welcome to Palliative Care Grand Rounds. This monthly blog carnival highlights some of the best and most interesting blog posts related to palliative care. Grand Rounds are published on the first Wednesday of every month. As this month's host of Palliative Care Grand Rounds, we will give our own " GeriPal. Death Panels and Health Care Reform. Which had a great article. About her experience being newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer with a copy of "...
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A Window for Your Home: February 2009
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A Window for Your Home. David Tasma to Dame Cicely Saunders, Founder of modern hospice). Saturday, February 28, 2009. The case study for this class involved a 10 y.o. African American child with a history of asthma who has a near drowning event, was under the water for 10 minutes, has been vented (weaning unsuccessful) and comatose (with seizures when moved) for over six months. The family is now facing bringing him home, while not understanding the poor prognosis. Can they even manage this child at home?
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A Window for Your Home: How to Teach, What to Teach
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A Window for Your Home. David Tasma to Dame Cicely Saunders, Founder of modern hospice). Wednesday, February 11, 2009. How to Teach, What to Teach. It’s being great, and I’m learning a lot in a mentored environment. It also reinforces my belief that I will enjoy teaching (although you are welcome to check back with me in a year or so when I’m doing it on my own). I am going through my major palliative care text books, and the ELNEC gero curriculum. One possible activity is to have them do an advance ...
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My Grad School Stuff: December 2009
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My Grad School Stuff. Because earning a master's degree is like looking for a black cat in a darkened room. And there is no cat. Sunday, December 27, 2009. NU501, final project feedback. NU 501, Nursing Informatics, Assignment 5, Grade A. You did an excellent job with your Blog! Why, thank you very much. Now I just need to finish that paper for assignment 4. Sunday, December 20, 2009. NU 501 Leapfrog to Assignment 5. And promptly got the go-ahead from Sharon, my instructor:. Think I'd be able to submit t...
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc: Dumbest dog in the world
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc. Shared stories of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Friday, July 17, 2009. Dumbest dog in the world. With apologies to the dog in the currently popular movie, I truly believe Chester to be the dumbest dog in the world, or at least in the top (bottom? 2% His owners agree. Poor helpless defenseless birds. Yet these, too, died as they lived.in a precarious situation the mother bird chose for them. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Dumbest dog in the world. I was in a traditio...
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc: September 2009
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc. Shared stories of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Sunday, September 27, 2009. It brought to mind other times I have had to "debrief" with a grieving family. When a friend died in his sleep in his 40's, the autopsy showed undetected heart disease. Did we all ignore his heartburn too readily as overeating? Would we do differently had we thought? Did we miss something? 20-20 hindsight is usually a lot more clear than we would like. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Oh, and the Stan...
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc: Choices
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc. Shared stories of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Saturday, August 15, 2009. First of all, let it be known far and wide that simply having an advance directive does NO good. It doesn't impact the care you do or don't receive, and most of the time, it can't even be located, let alone honored. The discussion needs to happen with the physician, but what physician these days has the time to go in depth about these issues? A patient who doesn't know all the options cannot meani...
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc: Independence
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc. Shared stories of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Sunday, July 5, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The main reason I write this is to share these stories. Hospice has been called "Medicine's greatest secret". This is my humble contribution to changing that fact. Oh, and the Standard Disclaimer: I work for a healthcare organization, but what you see here is mine alone, and does not represent the views of my employer. Dumbest dog in the world. Follow me on Twitter.
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc: Memories
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Life Stories of a Hospice Doc. Shared stories of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Sunday, August 2, 2009. New York City. Gotham. The Big Apple. I grew up in a blue collar town near St. Louis. We weren't considered a suburb, because people fled the big city to get TO the suburbs. No one fled TO our town; just the opposite. Nonetheless, we were close enough to be near the "big city" but far enough away that I never considered myself an urbanite. What does that have to do with NYC? I read the other day that...
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