Drew Rosielle, MD
Drew Rosielle is a palliative care physician.
Conditions
The Annals of Internal Medicine recently had a timely discussion of advance care planning, trying to focus the discussion away from helping patients specify what they'd want, and more towards laying the groundwork for appropriate decision making by loved ones…
The Annals of Internal Medicine recently had a timely discussion of advance care planning, trying to focus the discussion away from helping patients specify what they’d want, and more towards laying the groundwork for appropriate decision making by loved ones whenever that time comes. Good one for the teaching file.
That is, instead of thinking of ACP as patients pre-specifying “if X happens, then …
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Focus advance care planning on outcomes
Meds
Recently, the New York Times reported of the movement in Washington State to officially do something about prescription opioid abuse, coming on the heels of course of the FDA rejecting the current risk evaluation and mitigation strategy plan as, essentially,…
Recently, the New York Times reported of the movement in Washington State to officially do something about prescription opioid abuse, coming on the heels of course of the FDA rejecting the current risk evaluation and mitigation strategy plan as, essentially, not going far enough.
The article basically discusses the discussion in Washington about what to do; no formal new plans have been officially proposed as …
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Are opioids any less safe or effective in non cancer patients?
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