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The Not-Quite Annual ASCO Round-Up - 2018 edition
by Drew RosielleTheAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, besides being a feast for the pharmaceutical business news pages (google ' ASCO ' and most of the hits will be about how announcement X affected drug company Y ' s stock), is also one of the premiere platforms for publishing original palliative-oncology research. So every year I try to at least scan the abstracts to see what ' s happening, and I figure I might as well blog about it. It ' s tough to analyze abstracts, so I ' ll mostly just be summarizing ones that I think will be of interest to hospice and palliative care folks. I imagine I ' ve missed...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: artificial nutrition ASCO cannabanoid code status conference reviews fatigue hpmglobal marijuana mindfulness mucositis neuropathic oncology pain race rosielle scrambler Source Type: blogs

Studying for the 2018 Hospice and Palliative Medicine Boards
We have started to get a lot of questions about how best to study for the 2018 Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board Exam. Yes, that one that many of us took a little less than 10 years ago and now it ’s coming due. Or the one that you need to take after completing your fellowship this year.So, to help answer these question, we at Pallimed and GeriPal have created a quick guide to the top 5 resources we use to prep for the boards:AAHPM ' s Intensive Board Review Course: the ultimate live in-person prep that includes a pretty stellar cast of speakers including Mary Lynn McPherson, Kim Curseen, Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - May 25, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: Blogs to Boards meta The profession Source Type: blogs

Join the #hpm Tweet Chat This Week in a Research Initiative with the Brain Cancer Quality of Life Collaborative
The Pallimed community is invited to participate in the #hpm Tweet Chat this week which help inform and shape a comparative effectiveness research proposal being designed by the Brain Cancer Quality of Life Collaborative, an initiative led by a team of patients, care partners, advocates, neuro-oncologists, and palliative care professionals.The #hpm Tweet Chat is this Wednesday, April 25th, 6-7p PST/9-10p ET.Topics for the chatare available here, in the #hpm chat ’s blog post,How might we introduce palliative care to people with complex neurological conditions, by Liz Salmi and Bethany Kwan, PhD, ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 22, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: #hpm brain cancer btsm tweetchat twitter Source Type: blogs

Social Media at the 2018 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care
by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)The Annual Assembly of AAHPM and HPNA is this week and if you are going to Boston, or staying home to keep things running smoothly, social media can help make your conference experience be transformative. Since 2009, the Assembly has been making use of Twitter to provide additional insight, commentary and sources for the multiple sessions each day. Now things are expanding to dedicated conference apps, Facebook and Instagram. And for the first year ever we have Twitter contests.The official hashtag of the conference:#hpm18 (works on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), use it in every...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 12, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Handy Hints for Attending a National Healthcare Conference - Updated!
by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)In the early years of Pallimed, I was brand new to going to national conferences focused on healthcare. It was exciting, exhausting and at times overwhelming. I started collected little bits of wisdom I picked up from others and some I discovered myself. They were compiled into theoriginal Handy Hints for a National Meeting back in 2005, with updates along the way. With theAnnual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care coming up this week, I thought I should revisit them since I have not updated it since 2011. Please feel free to comment and leave thoughts from your own experience.Updated...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 12, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: conference sinclair Source Type: blogs

Frequently Asked Questions about Health Care Power of Attorney (HCPOA)
by Lizzy Miles (@LizzyMiles_MSW)Sometimes when we encourage patients to complete a Health Care Power of Attorney (HCPOA), the patient declines the offer based on mistaken assumptions they have about the document. We never want to push a patient into doing something they don ' t want to do, however, sometimes their resistance is based on a misunderstanding. In an attempt to help address mistaken beliefs and/or concerns, I created a FAQ for our patients. This also can be used for staff as talking points for the discussion.I don ’t need one, I am my own decision-maker and I always plan to be.As long as you are able to speak...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - February 19, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: advanced directives communication conversation hcpoa lizzy miles social work Source Type: blogs

2018 12th Annual Pallimed-GeriPal Party
by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)Every February the questions start rolling in, " When is the Pallimed-GeriPal party? " Just so you know and can mark it on your calendars from here to eternity, it has a standing reserved spot on Thursday night at 9pm local time the week of the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (but just to be clear it is not an official part of the meeting). And as always, feel free to invite and bring any colleagues or new friends with you as this is not an exclusive crowd.So for 2018, that means you should clear off the evening of March 15th. We will, of course, be doing our traditional pu...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - February 16, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: conference geripal party sinclair Source Type: blogs

Did You Have To Say “Yet”?
by Ryan Nottingham and Gregg VandeKieft (@vandekieftg)A middle-aged man* came to our ambulatory palliative care clinic with his family. With the exception of his recently diagnosed brain tumor, he was in peak physical condition. His diagnosis weighed heavily on his family and his personality changes and angry outbursts left them frayed. He did not feel the same burden as his family since these outbursts came to him in the form of blackouts. We could visualize him as a man of few words before his diagnosis, someone who would speak up with a dry one-liner. During this visit, his humor was touched with acidity. As we began ou...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - February 15, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: nottingham pharmacist physician vandekieft Source Type: blogs