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Up-to-date Legal Form Helps Emergency Personnel Follow Health Directive
Photo credit Cytonn photography Dear Carol: My mom has lived for years with multiple health issues including two rounds of cancer treatment. She's now 79-years-old and suffers from severe bowel and digestive disorders, lung disease, and more. Considering her quality of life, she’s very cheerful and reasonably happy, but she is also realistic and she’s determined not to drag things out as her health continues to deteriorate. Her brain is sharp. She has a health directive and she’s aware that she can get a do-not-resuscitate order. She also knows that life-extending measures can be taken by emergency technicians ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 1, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

What's the Differences Between Palliative Care and Hospice?
Many people have heard of hospice care but they mistakenly think that it’s just a way to help cancer patients be more comfortable at the end of their lives. Fewer people have heard of palliative care, and they may have no idea what it is. The truth is that hospice and palliative care are related but used for different reasons at different times, and everyone should be well-versed in what they offer. Here, we’ll clarify some points of confusion. View the slideshow on HealthCentral about the differences between palliative care and hospice: Carol Bradley Bursack is the Candid Caregiver MedicareFAQ – Medicare Resource Ce...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 31, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Wound Care Research at the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting
I just returned from the American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, where parts of my wound care research were presented as a poster. My co-author was geriatrician-in-training Dr. Rikitha Menezes, who participated in data collection. Rikitha came from Canada to New York City for a year of fellowship at the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where I hold an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor. The third collaborating author was Dr. Santhini Namagiri, an attending physician at the New Jewish Home in Manhattan who holds an appointment w...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - May 9, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer end-of-life care geriatrics gerontology Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Source Type: blogs

Financial Toxicity is Hurting my Cancer Patients
By LEILA ALI-AKBARIAN MD, MPH As news of Tom Brokaw’s cancer diagnosis spreads, so does his revelation that his cancer treatments cost nearly $10,000 per day. In spite of this devastating diagnosis, Mr. Brokaw is not taking his financial privilege for granted.  He is using his voice to bring attention to the millions of Americans who are unable to afford their cancer treatments. My patient Phil is among them. At a recent appointment, Phil mentioned that his wife has asked for divorce. When I inquired, he revealed a situation so common in oncology, we have a name for it: Financial Toxicity.  This occurs wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Finance Medical Practice Patients Cancer financial toxicity healthcare costs Leila Ali-Akbarian Oncology Source Type: blogs

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Chair of the Ethics Committee. She has just...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 3, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

“ Oncology is a very dynamic specialty and is of the utmost importance ”
Can you tell us a little bit about your work and current research? To tell you about my work as a specialist in Medical Oncology, I must first briefly present the situation in Romania. Unfortunately, in Romania, a medical oncologist must overcome many difficulties. As a resident, you become a specialist in medical oncology following 5 years of specialization in the field and an examination. Then, after another 5 years, you will specialize in medical oncology and receive the title of “Primary Doctor” (this is the highest professional degree in medical care, in other words: Senior Medical Oncologist). Unfortunately, rese...
Source: Naturally Selected - February 28, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Hannah Towfiq Tags: F1000 Institutions Source Type: blogs

The man in 558
Coming in to meet the students, housestaff and patients for the first day on service always excites me. This Monday was no exception. What awaited me? How many patients would I need to see? What lessons could I impart? When I arrived we had 11 patients, 2 new and 9 had arrived previously. Going through the list, while routine, always stimulated questions and teaching opportunities. Sometimes the team had questions for me. Sometimes they had a mischievous sense of putting me on the spot. I always love that interplay. When we got to the man in 558, they told a sad story of an angry man with terminal cancer. He had acce...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - February 25, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 25th 2019
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more. This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 24, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

John W. Campbell, Editor of Astounding Science Fiction, Described Actuarial Escape Velocity in 1949
Some of the voices of the past can appear entirely contemporary, because they saw further and with greater clarity than most of their peers. John W. Campbell, editor of Astounding Science-Fiction Magazine, died of heart disease at age 61 in 1971. In 1949 he wrote an editorial on the future of medicine, aging, and longevity that wouldn't seem out of place today. He anticipated what we presently call actuarial escape velocity, or longevity escape velocity, the idea that gains in life span through progress in medical technology allow greater time to benefit from further gains - and eventually, we are repaired more rapidly tha...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Digital advances in the medical aid in dying movement
I am certain that many of you might be familiar with the intelligent, vibrant young lady named Brittany Maynard. Brittany’s story was so compelling to the world that it reached the most outstanding and historic numbers through digital media. Ms. Maynard was only 29, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and decided that she would end […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jennifer-lynn" rel="tag" > Jennifer Lynn < /a > < /span > Tags: Social media Facebook Palliative Care Twitter Source Type: blogs

Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 4 – Resource Allocation and Access
By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD  Dave Levin Colin Konschak The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing this crisis. Part one of the series proposed a strategic framework for evaluating and pursuing technical solutions. A Framework for Innovation In part one of our series, we declared the opioid crisis an “All Hands-On Deck” moment and made the case that health IT (HIT) has a lot to offer. Given the many different possibilities, having a meth...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Tech Access to care Colin Konschak Dave Levin Divurgent Health IT Sansoro Health Source Type: blogs

Top Smart Algorithms In Healthcare
As artificial intelligence tools have been invading more or less every area of healthcare, we made a list to keep track of the top smart algorithms aiming for better diagnostics, more sophisticated patient care or further sighted predictions of diseases. Does A.I. beat doctors? Only if you lived under a rock for the last couple of years, could you not have heard about artificial intelligence. Some might have even come across the spread and potential of A.I. in healthcare. Not only smart algorithms themselves but also the hype around A.I. has grown immensely, thus every time a new study about deep learning or machine...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 5, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI cancer death future Health Healthcare pathology prediction Radiology technology Source Type: blogs

Care and the Close of Life – Conversations in Bioethics
Hosted by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Conversations in Bioethics brings together distinguished speakers and the broader community to explore a topic in bioethics and inspire leadership for change. This year's panel will be held February 7th will focus on End-of-Life Care. The event will live-streamed here. Panelists include: Eduardo Bruera, MD, FAAHPM – Professor of Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston – a palliative care physician, is Department Chair and Professor of Medicine in the  Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medic...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 1, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs