By Janice Firn, PhD, LMSW, HEC-C The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) annual meeting is October 11-14th in Baltimore, MD offering a robust schedule with many palliative care related sessions. I can’t attend them all and choosing between sessions can be difficult. As chair of the ASBH hospice…
By Michael Pottash MD MPH A few years ago, I began loitering around our pulmonary medicine teaching clinic hoping that my presence would prompt the pulmonary fellows to ask their sicker patients what they understood about advanced lung disease. I even hoped that I might be invited into the patient’s…