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Hospital Discharges are like Expeditions to Antarctica: Be Prepared
Millions of older people enter the hospital each year for elective treatment of serious medical issues such as cancer, heart disease, and quality of life surgeries like joint replacement. Like an Antarctic expedition, a successful hospitalization is almost entirely determined...
Can We Find the Right Formula for Legal Physician-Assisted Death?
Last month, I wrote about my ambivalence about the EoLOA in a personal essay about a client who desired, but did not carry out, a physician-assisted death in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.
Giving Shingles the Short Shrift: New vaccine could make shingles just a bad memory.
People over 65 are much more likely to contract shingles, but it can occur at any time of life in someone who has had varicella.