The New England Journal of Medicine reports an epidemiologic study of in-hospital CPR in older patients (65 years of age and older). The study identified over 430,000 Medicare beneficiaries who...

Image via Wikipedia I remember a discussion with a teenager with cancer and his family regarding treatment options and prognosis.  He was open to discussing these matters and even initiated a lot of the discussion and questions himself.  At one point...

<img alt="Cover of "This Republic of Suffering: Dea..." height="300" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5172tzjPraL._SL300_.jpg" style="border: medium none; display: block;" width="197" />Cover via Amazon In 2007, 2008, and 2009 I posted...

Image by cobalt123 via Flickr (A pump! Get it?) Holy cow!  You have really given me some great information to work with.  I am still combing through the info and promise to post my informal analysis by Thursday evening.  I will be closing the...

In my hospice and palliative medicine practice I have been seeing many more intrathecal pumps being used in the past year then I can recall.  More and more palliative care doctors are telling me they are being asked to help in the management of these...

We have featured blogs here from social workers, doctors and nurses in the hospice and palliative medicine field, but we have never featured a blog written from a hospice patient.  Judi Chamberlin has been writing "Life as a Hospice Patient" and just...