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Results of 2014 Stories of the Year in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
by Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPMThe results are in and the public* has had their say!The top story of the year in hospice and palliative medicine for 2014 is Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal" being published and becoming a best seller on numerous lists.  The honorable mention for story of the year was the Institute of Medicine publishing the Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences near the End of Life. Here is the full list with links of all the top stories.Here is the complete list of the top stories by category with the notable person or organization indicated in parentheses.Story of the...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 25, 2015 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Tags: poll sinclair year in review Source Type: blogs

January 2015 HPMJC: Palliative Care and heart failure in primary care
by Katherine Sleeman and Tara WhitburnOn Monday 26th January 2015 from 8-9pm London Time (3-4p New York/ET and Noon-1p California/PT) we will be holding the monthly twitter journal club for hospice and palliative medicine: #hpmjc. The aim of the journal club is to provide an informal multidisciplinary forum for discussion of latest research findings, and we hope you will join us!You can find some more information about the journal club #hpmjc here in a previous Pallimed post. The paper for discussion this month is ‘Palliative Care among Heart Failure Patients in Primary Care: A Comparison to Cancer Patients Us...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 24, 2015 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Tags: heart failure hpmjc sleeman social media tweetchat twitter whitburn Source Type: blogs

Review of The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care by Angelo Volandes
by Andi Chatburn, DOAs a palliative care physician, The Conversation by Dr. Angelo Volandes is a book I want to see being read, passed along and read again in every coffee shop, book club and doctors’ lounge in my community. Volandes describes his new book The Conversation as a memoir, but in truth it is a “how-to” guide for having tough discussions in the context of serious illness. It is a “quick-start” for ubiquitous primary palliative care. Nothing in this book will be earth-shattering or revolutionary to the Palliative Care physician- it chronicles our every day experience. What makes Volandes’ book rev...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 23, 2015 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Tags: advance care planning book chatburn review Source Type: blogs

Palliative Care Everywhere!
by Cory Ingram, MD This Wednesday I look forward to a conversation on how palliative care principles and practices are able to be embedded across health systems in to various disciplines and delivery forms. Palliative care principles when applied in various clinical situations improve the quality of care for patients and families and even their longevity and care affordability. For the first time in history our society is experiencing an unprecedented medical and social situation. It is unprecedented that people are living longer, requiring more complex care, and experiencing more burdens of illness and treatment and dying...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 14, 2015 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Tags: ingram palliative care social media The profession tweetchat twitter Source Type: blogs

Hospice and Palliative Care: The Year in Review 2014
by Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPMLooking back on 2014, it seemed like hospice and palliative care issues were constantly in the news. But then again, I may be standing in the single loudest position in the echo chamber of palliative care. Even with the awareness of that bias, it is clear to me that we had many significant events this year in our field that will really influence where we go in 2015 and beyond. (Although if you look at the graph below hospice and palliative care are steady to declining in percentage of search on Google.)We have never done a formal year in review here at Pallimed, and now that we are finally...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 13, 2015 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Tags: book film hospice HuffPo media philanthropy sinclair social media twitter WaPo year in review Source Type: blogs