America, your bluff has been called…the verdict is in, and the old adage remains true: you cannot have your cake and eat it too (shocking news, I know). Clichéd as it may sound, that message rang true this morning as the annual assembly opened in a blaze of introspection and criticism of the status quo. … Read more“Bending the Cost Curve:” reflections on this morning’s plenary session
by Porter Storey, MD, AAHPM Executive Vice President Palliative care teams should be consulted more often for cancer patients in active treatment. I know, I am “preaching to the choir” on this blog, but it may be important how we explain this to our various “stakeholders.” The Public – Palliative care can help align patient … Read morePalliative Care for Cancer Patients in Treatment
Most of you have already seen the study released yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine and I suspect that those of you who work in palliative medicine were not at all surprised by the results: patients who received palliative care along with standard oncology treatment for advanced lung cancer not only had a … Read moreNEJM Study Shows Palliative Care Extends Life