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An Interview with Noted Pancreas Surgeon Dr. Charles J. Yeo
Recently, InsideSurgery had a chance to speak with Dr. Charles J. Yeo about his career as a top Whipple and pancreas surgeon and his ongoing role as a surgical leader and educator. As the Samuel D. Gross Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery, you welcomed your second intern class to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last month. What one piece advice do you have for your new trainees? One piece of advice….that’s tough! Several pieces of advice….enjoy the challenges and experiences of internship; read and increase your knowledge base outside of that 80 hours; practice knot...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 12, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Interviews Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 096
Welcome to the majestic 96th edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week EMCrit Top spot is an absolute ripper on Critical Care Palliation with Ashley Shreves - This is the best ED...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 25, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review Resuscitation LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

What ’s love got to do with it: lessons from a dying physician
They came from all corners of the globe to bid him farewell. He looked cachetic, his frail form interrupted by swelling in his abdomen and legs, a result of end-stage pancreatic cancer. It was Dr. Yeat’s last week in the hospital before being transferred to a nearby hospice.  He was now on morphine, and despite severe fatigue and difficulty breathing, he always managed a smile. Some of his visitors were former colleagues; others were friends, previous medical trainees, and mentees. Amidst moments of laughter, crying, and sober reflection, each recounted one anecdote after another of their encounters with Dr. Yeat at som...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-a-odonkor" rel="tag" > Charles A. Odonkor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Committee on Transforming End of Life Care is Incomplete
In conclusion, I'm really glad the IOM is revisiting this issue after almost two decades.  I have great confidence in the expertise of the committee so far, and expect great outcomes from the process.  But if you think there needs to be a little bit more diversity now is your chance to give input. Reference: Summary table of different characteristics of the panel via Google Docs
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 16, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Christian Sinclair Source Type: blogs

Prognosis: Weeks to Months – On the End of an Era at San Diego Hospice
On February 14th, 1977, a group of volunteers offered support to 10 patients who were nearing the end of life, and in doing so formed the foundation of what would grow into the largest academic hospice in the US – caring for upwards of 1000 patients each day at its peak, and training hundreds of hundreds of clinicians in the specialty of palliative care.  Just a day shy of its 36th anniversary, it was announced that San Diego Hospice would be closing. As an alumnus of the fellowship program at San Diego, I am one of many who are grieving this news.  I write here, not so much to share my grief, but rather to ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - February 14, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Suzana Makowski Source Type: blogs

End of Life in the News: Where are all the Palliative Care Teams?
by Suzana Makowski By now, many of you may have heard or read Charles Ornstein,(@charlesornstein) a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter, on NPR or in ProPublica on "How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care."  He tells of his mother's final days in the hospital, after having aspirated during the placement of a naso-gastric tube that resulted in cardio-pulmonary arrest and subsequent days in the ICU.  He speaks to the sense of being alone and the lack of guidance in the process of end-of-life decision-making.  My heart dropped when hearing this story - for his (and his family's) lo...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 9, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Suzana Makowski Source Type: blogs

Father's Day Without Your Father
I drove from Kansas City to Oklahoma to bury my father in a Veteran's Cemetery two years ago this summer, not long after Father's Day. I have not really thought much about that day in the following two years.  Which now feels kind of strange. Shouldn't I be think about it like a normal grieving adult child? It occurs to me now as I anticipate my wife and kids to celebrate my tenure as a father, that days like these are also memorial days for so many people.  Although I have talked with many people who have also lost one or both of their parents, it never really occurred to me as it is this week, the profound imp...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 14, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Christian Sinclair Source Type: blogs

The Law and Ethics of Dementia
Just published:  The Law and Ethics of Dementia, edited by: Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring, Israel Doron Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and ethical importance. Its importance grows as more of us live longer. The legal and ethical problems it raises are complex, intertwined and under-discussed. This book brings together contributions from clinicians, lawyers and ethicists - all of them world leaders in the field of dementia - and is a comprehensive, scholarly yet accessible library of all the main (and many of the fringe) perspectives.  It begins with the medical facts: what i...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 10, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Futility in Chronic Anorexia Nervosa
Medical futility is usually discussed in the context of life-sustaining treatment in the ICU.  But the new June 2015 issue 15(7) of American Journal of Bioethics addresses futility in another context. There is one 10-page target article and six 2-page commentaries. Futility in Chronic Anorexia Nervosa: A Concept Whose Time Has Not Yet ComeCynthia M. A. Geppert Anorexia Nervosa, “Futility,” and Category ErrorsRonald W. Pies The Futility of Arguing About Medical Futility in Anorexia Nervosa: The Question Is How Would You Handle Highly Specific Circumstances?Joel Yager “Futility...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 12, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

In the Company of Death; In Consortium Mortis
By Mark Ligorski#1. BeginningsJust like in superhero movies, there is always a back story. This is mine.After graduating medical school in 1981, I went to work at St. Vincent ’s Medical Center on Staten Island for the next two years, the first spent in rotating through the different areas of medicine and surgery and then a year of Internal Medicine. 100 hour work weeks were typical, with on call shifts every 3rd or 4th night.People stayed in hospital for weeks at a time; there were still wards with four to six patients. Intensive and cardiac care units were still pretty new. TheKaren Ann Quinlan case ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - December 3, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: advanced directives code status CPR ligorski respirator Source Type: blogs

Reforming Advanced Illness and End-of-Life Care: The Way Forward
The spring 2017 issue of the American Society on Aging's flagship journal  GENERATIONS includes over 100 pages on "Reforming Advanced Illness and End-of-Life Care: The Way Forward." Closing the Care GapBill Novelli and Raca Banerjee Understanding Cultural Gaps and Disparities in Advanced Illness CareMarian Grant Building the Road Ahead: Reflections on the C-TAC National SummitsJon Broyles Supporting the Patient Voice: Building the Foundation of Shared Decision-MakingPatricia Bomba Advance Care Planning: Ensuring Patients’ Preferences Govern the Care They ReceiveBrad Stuart, Angelo Volandes, and Benjamin W. ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 25, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Psychedelic Medicine – New Frontiers in Palliative Care
Exciting new research is revealing that psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and MDMA, may offer significant benefit for patients struggling at the end of life and those beset by major depressions and treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress.  A conference at the University of Washington School of Law, on October 27, 2017, brings together doctors, scientific researchers, attorneys and ethicists to consider the medical, legal and ethical implications of this evolving research. Confirmed speakers include:Dan Abrahamson, Senior Legal Advisor, Drug Policy Alliance's Office of Legal Affairs, Oakland, CA Ira Byock, M.D., ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 21, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a " discussion blog " , comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussi...
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs