Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Historical Pallimed: April 2006
Here we continue our historical look at Pallimed posts from the same month in 2006 (our first full year of posting).
Here are previous posts in the series:
Here are previous posts in the series:
- January 2006
- February 2006 (Soon to be published)
- March 2006
- Drew blogs about the 'terrible choice' for patients who elect hospice to forego any curative interventions and what level of burden they would be comfortable with.
- Will the new tanning tax in the health care reform bill have any effect on chronic opioid use? Here is the one article that might give you a hint.
- In four years the FDA still has not heard my plea to add "Indications and Methods for Discontinuation" as a category in every medication insert.
- A good one to discuss with your favorite chaplain: Does intercessory prayer help or harm CABG patients?
- Should we have more open-access to medical journals? NEJM and Drew have a little discussion.
- Opioid battle royal! Muscular morphine versus Oxycodone the Obliterator in the Visceral pain challenge!
- The BBC had a feature on 'How to Have a Good Death.' Sadly the main link is broken, but the other links all work dandy in this post.
