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Transfers from the Hospital to Nursing Home: An F- Grade For Quality 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Huge numbers of older persons transition from hospitals to the nursing home. Often, an older hospitalized patient needs skilled nursing care before they are ready to return home. In other cases, a n...
The Fellowship Match Game: Gearing Residents and Programs up for the NRMP Match 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Now is the time of year that residents are starting to interview at programs across the U.S. in preparation for the NRMP Specialty Match and the hopeful placement in their top fellowship program (here...
Remembering David Solomon 20 Aug 2013 | 07:21 am
Emerald Bay - Lake Tahoe I am in Lake Tahoe for a leadership retreat for the scholars in the Dennis W. Jahnigen and T. Franklin Williams Career Development Awards programs. These awards were establ...
Inappropriate Management of Hypertension and Diabetes in the Hospital 18 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
A great Viewpoint in JAMA Internal Medicine describes an important and common cause of over treatment and medication errors in hospitalized patients: Intensifying treatment for chronic problems that...
Research Amplifies Need for Patient-Centered Goals of Care Discussion 10 Aug 2013 | 04:08 am
How important is reducing the risk of one ailment if it increases the risk of another? A class of drugs to treat hypertension (antihypertensives) is among the most commonly prescribed medications in ...
2 MUST Views: Portraits of the Elderly as They Once Were and Jane Lotter Obituary 2 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm
I wanted to draw GeriPal readers attention to two websites that you must view. Really, right now. If you have 5 minutes, you won't regret it. The first is a series of images, the second a self-autho...
Open Wound by Karlawish - A Wonderful Read 27 Jul 2013 | 06:14 pm
I wanted to alert the Geripal community about a wonderful and interesting book written by one of our colleagues: Open Wound, The Tragic Obsession of William Beaumont by Jason Karlawish form the Univer...
July Mind, Beginner's Mind: Teaching Imminent Death 20 Jul 2013 | 04:06 am
Shunryu Suzuki by Robert Boni "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" is a collection of talks by the late Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki. The book opens with the words: "In the beginner's mind there are many possi...
Nudging residents to document advance directives 16 Jul 2013 | 10:33 pm
Picture of this frog has no bearing on the post. I'm not saying residents are frogs in disguise. Seriously. It's just a cool picture, isn't it? Credit Wikimedia Commons So on the one hand, it seem...
Why the Mini-Mental State Examination (“MMSE”) Copyright Has No Legal Standing 12 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Over a year ago, John Newman and Robin Feldman wrote in the New England Journal Of Medicine about a company, PAR, attempting to assert a copyright over the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE). While I foun...
