Sensible Medicine
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
But you cannot use placebo if there are proven or well accepted alternatives. If these same investigators let me look through their clinic charts, I guarantee they never give one drug and then put a fit, trial eligible patient on best supportive care or hospice. If there is no standard of care, you can use placebo.
Sensible Medicine
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
He is otherwise well, with only hypertension, well-controlled on one medication. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers. Home hospice is never an option for someone with no family, no friends, and, often, no home. The decision to begin hospice brought guilt, grief, and relief.
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Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Sometimes we are initiating hospice; other times the patient is moving to be with family who will take responsibility for end-of-life care. That said, he would not hear about hospice care, telling us, and himself, that he might still regain enough strength for the oncologist to treat him.
Core Medical Group
JANUARY 23, 2024
Once a well-paid factory worker who could predict her days down to the hour, Adina’s career took a turn when she experienced a layoff. Having been a hospice volunteer where she ultimately served for 11 years, Adina applied her compassion and commitment to patient care to the next level by diving into nursing school at age 36.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 20, 2023
When smells and sounds, as well as sights, come together, the impact of an entire location can be powerful. It was in room 23 that she first raised the possibility of hospice. A patient of mine introduced me to the band, but their sound became inextricably linked to a memory a few years later when I visited him in the ICU.
Sensible Medicine
JUNE 30, 2023
On the other hand, KW was a middle-aged American man with chest pain and significant risk factors for coronary artery disease – hypertension and diabetes – neither of which had ever been terribly well-controlled. She was well hydrated and her vital signs were normal. PH is a woman I have written about in the past.
Sensible Medicine
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Sometimes we are initiating hospice; other times the patient is moving to be with family who will take responsibility for end-of-life care. That said, he would not hear about hospice care, telling us, and himself, that he might still regain enough strength for the oncologist to treat him.
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