March 29, 2010

This blog has moved

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This blog is now located at http://blog.drmurielgillick.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may c...
March 11, 2010

Drugged in the Nursing home

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This week’s Boston Globe featured an article blasting Massachusetts nursing homes for having too many residents on antipsychotic medication...
January 04, 2010

When Lawyers Practice Medicine

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I sat with my elderly parents and their estate planning lawyer, going over documents. The lawyer had updated their will, revised their power...
November 30, 2009

The Heart of the Matter

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Just before the annual deluge of holiday visitors began inundating the Magic Kingdom, over 20,000 people gathered in Orlando, Florida to att...
October 15, 2009

Balking at Baucus?

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Democrats and Republicans alike are balking at the Baucus proposal, the latest health care reform proposal to emerge from Congress. Not surp...

End-of-Life Planning is No Conspiracy

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Far from a left-wing conspiracy to deprive you of desirable care near the end of life, advance care planning - talking with one’s physician ...

Falling Down on the Job

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It’s not often that a report appears that identifies a problem and at the same time, another report is released that offers a solution to th...
August 26, 2009

Messing with Medicare

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Senior citizens have been coming out in droves to express concern that health care reform legislation will deprive them of what they now hav...
June 19, 2009

Waste Not, Want Not

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A recent commentary in JAMA begins with the sweeping condemnation: “An epidemic of waste blights the US health care delivery system.”Sad as...
June 02, 2009

Is Death Optional?

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Just how far attitudes and expectations about aging have changed in the last 60 years hit home on reading an article from the NY Times Magaz...