Palliative Care Is About the Life That’s Left, Not the End of Life

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/887016 Distinguishing Between Palliative Care and Hospice Diane E. Meier, MD: It’s a common confusion and misconception. The short answer is that all hospice is palliative care, but not all palliative care is hospice. That is the elevator speech version. The more nuanced version is that the Medicare Hospice Benefit, which was written into law […]

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Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/28/16823266/medical-treatments-evidence-based-expensive-cost-stents The recent news that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo ought to be shocking. Each year, hundreds of thousands of American patients receive stents for the relief of chest pain, and the cost of the procedure ranges from $11,000 to $41,000 in US […]

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CVS relying on opiate conversion tables that are AT BEST “fuzzy math ” ?

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

When Equal Isn’t Really Equal The above link is to a article that I authored and was posted on National Pain Report These conversion tablets that you find on the web … have “buyer beware” posted on them in the footnotes that these tables are “guesstimates”..  AT BEST ! Yet it would appear that CVS […]

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