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In observing for the book I am writing about the VA healthcare system I have been observing the most stellar end of life care given by the palliative care and […]

 This post on Terminology in Medicine, which follows on the post I did on failure yesterday is from the wonderful blog GeriPal. on Geriatrics and Palliative Care, which we need […]

Contemporary medicine is obsessed with failure. Look anywhere, or everywhere and the word “fail” keeps cropping up. The word is almost always associated with personal blame and thus with personal [...]

I just want to post this article on genuine interprofessional care that just appeared in Academic Medicine.    It focuses on what the VA is doing to create new models of […]

I am very happy to announce that I, along with my two co-editors, David L. Feldman M.D. and Michael Leonard, M.D. have just published our edited volume Collaborative Caring: Stories […]

On January 7, 2015, a desk clerk in a Veterans Health Affairs clinic in El Paso, Texas, shot and killed a VA psychologist working in the clinic and then shot […]