Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics
Case of the Month
| DATE | TITLE/TOPIC |
| August 2025 | The Surgical Pause for Hip Fractures – Recognizing it as an Intervention and not a Delay |
| June 2025 | When Eating Hurts: Managing Refractory Nausea and Vomiting in a Young Adult with SMA Syndrome |
| April 2025 | Catatonia or Terminal Delirium? |
| February 2025 | Meaning and Management of Black Esophagus |
| August 2024 | Tapering a Cancer patient from Long Term Opioid Therapy |
| July 2024 | DORA the Explorer Exploring the Novel Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonists (DORAs) for Insomnia |
| May 2024 | Seratonin Syndrome |
| April 2024 | “A 34-year-old drug addict with metastatic cancer” Exposing Harmful Language in Medical Documentation of Substance Use and Recommendations for Improvement |
| March 2024 | Shared-Decision Making in Limb Amputation |
| February 2024 | The Voice not Heard: Striving for Patient-Centered Care among Patients Lacking Decision-making Capacity |
| January 2024 | POLST versus Out-of-Hospital-DNR: A Tale of Two Forms |
If you are looking for a specific case not listed here (years 2011-2023), please reach out to Lori Spahr at spahrl@upmc.edu.