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Pressure Ulcers are an Under-Appreciated Public Health Issue
As a geriatric fellow back in the 1980’s I became intrigued by the wide prevalence of pressure ulcers and how little literature there was on this disease.  Three decades later, they have not gone away and it amazes me that they are not on the list of recognized public health threats.   According to the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, pressure ulcers affect up ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 9, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Featured Geriatric Medicine Pressure Ulcers & Wound Care bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD pressure sores wound healing Source Type: blogs

Music and Art on the Covers of The Gerontologist
A recent cover of The Gerontologist features a musician at the local Octoberfest, a yearly block party that celebrates the German immigrant heritage of my neighborhood in Manhattan that is now only a memory. TG is the flagship journal of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging.  Looking back ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 9, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: An Aging World Art & Medicine Geriatric Medicine art and aging art and medicine images of aging Jeffrey M Levine MD music and aging photographs The Gerontologist Source Type: blogs

Aging Veterans on the Covers of The Gerontologist
I always had a soft spot for veterans, as my father saw action in the Pacific Theater and I grew up with his war mementos stashed in a corner of my basement.  A theme in the photos I’ve taken for covers on The Gerontologist has therefore been veterans, with images that reflect their pride in serving our country.  I was recently asked to provide a ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 2, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Geriatric Medicine images of aging Jeffrey M Levine MD medicine and art photographs veterans Source Type: blogs

Recognizing the Incurable in Ancient Egypt
The art of medicine is as old as human civilization, and what we think is new has often been done before. When researching the history of wound care I came across an interesting historical antecedent to today’s palliative care practices. I found it in the library of the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan, in a translation of an ancient Egyptian medical scroll, the ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 1, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Featured Geriatric Medicine Medical History ancient egypt dying in America hospice palliative care wound care Source Type: blogs

New Evidence for Pressure Ulcer Unavoidability
Over 150 years ago Jean Martin Charcot recognized that pressure ulceration can be an unavoidable component the dying process, kicking off a controversy over preventability that continues today.  Contemporary medical science presents a growing body of knowledge supporting the fact that many pressure ulcers cannot be avoided even when best-practices are implemented. A recent article in the American Journal of Critical Care shows that pharmacologic agents commonly used ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - February 27, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Pressure Ulcers & Wound Care decubitus ulcer pressure sores quality of care unavoidable wound healing Source Type: blogs

Sketching the Subway and the Disappearance of Time
When one rides the subway, particularly the local, time is marked by the staccato passage of stations punctuated by announcements and the in-and-out rush of commuters as the doors open and close. I recently began carrying my sketchbook on my commute to work and noticed that sketching can make time disappear. My observation brought understanding of the the right side of the brain, and connected me ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 26, 2015 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine City Diary Source Type: blogs

Getting Vesalius’s Goat
The anatomical masterpiece by Andreas Vesalius entitled De Humani Corporis Fabrica had two editions, the first in 1543 and the second in 1555. There were many changes in the text and woodcut illustrations, but one of the most mysterious alterations was the redrawing of the title page. Both pages feature a public dissection with Vesalius dissecting a female corpse in a makeshift amphitheater, but the ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 15, 2015 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Medical History Source Type: blogs

Goya’s Physician and the Art of Caring
I recently went to Boston to see the Goya exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and was thrilled to see one of my favorite paintings by this artist – Self Portrait with Dr. Arrias. The painting was on loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts – a museum I never had the chance to visit. In my opinion this is one of the ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 7, 2015 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Source Type: blogs

Jeffrey Levine becomes NPUAP Board Member
I am thrilled to announce that I have been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, also known as NPUAP.  My three year term begins this month.  Joining me as a new Board Member is Sarah Holden-Mount PT, CWS, FACCWS who is Vice President for Business Development at American Medical Technologies. The NPUAP is an independent not-for-profit professional organization ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 5, 2015 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Pressure Ulcers & Wound Care Source Type: blogs

Insights into Geriatrics from Cartoonist Roz Chast
I’ve never posted a book review but will make an exception for this amazing new graphic memoir.  Roz Chast, a beloved and well known cartoonist for the New Yorker, has written a brilliant book that should be required reading for the geriatric curriculum. It is entitled “Can’t we talk about something more PLEASANT,” and the title comes from her parents’ refusal to discuss their advancing ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - December 7, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Geriatric Medicine Source Type: blogs

New Government Report on Dying in America has Implications for Wound Care
A recently released report on Dying in America has important implications for the standard of care for persons with chronic wounds who are approaching life’s end. It was published by the prestigious Institute of Medicine and written by a panel of recognized experts on the topic of end-of-life care. The Institute is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences and acts under a ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - November 10, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Featured Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Ulcers & Wound Care Source Type: blogs

The Enigma of the Historiated “V” in Vesalius’s Fabrica
This post continues to mark the 500th birthday of the great anatomist Andreas Vesalius, whose masterpiece tome, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, skillfully combined art and medicine. Today I will discuss the enigma of the historiated V that was introduced in the 1555 second edition of the Fabrica.  It appears twice: once in the Dedication to Charles V and later at the beginning of Book 5 ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - October 22, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Medical History Source Type: blogs

Sketching Gowanus Canal
I was always intrigued by the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. I read so much about it, with its pollution and notorious odors, situated in one of the most rapidly gentrifying areas of the City. Then by a gesture of fate I learned that the New York City Urban Sketchers were spending a Sunday there. I had no choice but to go and check it out. ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - October 20, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine City Diary Source Type: blogs

Pressure Ulcer Care in Hospitals: What We Can Learn from the Texas Ebola Debacle
A simple lapse in communication in a Texas hospital resulted in a patient with a deadly contagious disease being discharged home. The information regarding the patient’s travel history was recorded into the electronic medical record (EMR) by a nurse but not transmitted to the doctor who made the decision to discharge him. Such an error seems difficult to comprehend, but this type of communication mishap ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - October 10, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Featured Pressure Ulcers & Wound Care Source Type: blogs

The Old Man of the Lake on the Cover of The Gerontologist
In 2010 the closing of St. Vincents Hospital in Manhattan gifted me with time to indulge my wanderlust, and so I went to Lake Titicaca in the Bolivian highlands of South America to celebrate the winter solstice with the shamans. The Gerontologist just published a cover photo from that trip, and here is the story of the image that features an ancient ceramic portrait of ...Read More (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - October 7, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: An Aging World Art & Medicine Featured Source Type: blogs