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Over the past year, I have traveled all over the country visiting Veterans Health Administration hospitals, clinics and other facilities for a book I am writing on the nation’s largest, [...]

      As I have been reading Atul Gawande’s  new book Being Mortal, I am fascinated by the fact that it has taken this surgeon so long to discover the realities […]

 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 […]

I have been observing some wonderful physicians and nurses and others at the VA facility at Fort Miley in San Francisco.  The VA’s commitment to appropriate, non-torturous end-of-life care [...]

On September 18, 2014, the New York Times OpEd page published a wonderful commentary by physician Barron H. Lerner called When Medicine Is Futile. The physician argued that doctors are […]