I Know You Love Me, Now Let Me Die
Dr. Louis M. Profeta, and emergency physician practicing in Indianapolis has written a compelling article “I Know You Love Me- Now Let Me Die” This is a great blog post about end of life. I totally agree that we have “medicalized” end of life—it gets death out of...
The Cost of Being an Elder
In a time when American pharmaceutical companies are buying the rights to old medications such as morphine, colchicine (for gout- renamed Colcrys and charging $7 for a pill instead of 50 cents), or doxycycline and charging much higher prices, or developing peanut...
The Power of Music
Many of you have heard of the iPod Music & Memory Project through the documentary Alive Inside about the amazing ways beloved music can positively affect folks with dementia. Music is proving to be extremely helpful in other areas of medicine as well. Can music...