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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. If the patient has a metabolic plan, whether it’s in their electronic medical record and or in their carrier gibbous fans.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.