Elsewhere in the palliverse – Weekend reads without Elissa

Dear Friends,

Another week has passed and there is much to tell, but before we get into let spare a quick (and envious) thought for Elissa who can’t be with us to post today because she is in the middle of a well earned holiday.

Now down to business.

This clip from the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) describes a novel analogy for our selves that works neatly with a description of palliative care.

The animation is part of a suite of resources that the CAPC has made available here. Continue reading

Tell me, which healthcare hashtags should I follow on twitter?

Too easy.

Symplur has come up with this fantastic list of healthcare hashtags.

The Healthcare Hashtag Project

You can search for areas of interest, eg. “palliative”
http://www.symplur.com/search/%23palliative
(Hey! I am 6th in worldwide palliative influencers!!)

I am off to check some of them out!

Sonia

Getting the numbers: Clinical trials in palliative care

Clinical medicine is informed by a number of traditions: important among these are the learnings drawn from randomized clinical trials. We may surmise that a new treatment will be effective, but the patient is the teacher, and there is an ethical imperative to carefully monitor the effects of a given treatment.  But what of trials among terminally ill patients, receiving palliative care? Continue reading