LIFE IN THE END ZONE

I’ve been debating whether or not to comment on the recent article in JAMA Internal Medicine about the importance of continuity of care fo...

My mother’s doctor runs a concierge practice—he charges his patients several thousand dollars a year on top of what they pay Medicare osten...

For roughly 20 years, a proposal to offer a new Medicare benefit for frail older people has gradually been building momentum. Named Medicar...

When President Obama announced a new, renewed war on cancer in January 16, saying “let’s make America the country that cures cancer,” many ...

Every year since 2007, I’ve been commenting on the annual update to the report, Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures . The report came out...

Geriatrics is not just about death and dying, but end of life issues are a prominent part of the field. As a geriatrician, I often recomme...

Massachusetts has a problem with nursing home quality. A recent report by the Boston Globe found that a number of the state’s for-profit n...

The Affordable Care Act, as it turns out, isn’t just about providing health insurance coverage for the 40 million previously uninsured Amer...

I’ve long been amazed by the legerdemain that went into deciding what Medicare will cover and what it won’t. I’m not talking about decision...

For some time, I’ve been insisting that the exclusive focus on patients and doctors in our discussions of “shared decision-making” is mispl...