Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics
Case of the Month
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| DATE | TITLE/TOPIC |
| August 2020 | How to Talk About Time Limited Trials |
| July 2020 | Deciding Who Can Decide: Assessing Decision-Making Capacity in Hospitalized Patients |
| June 2020 | Diagnosis and Medication Management of Post-operative and Migraine Headache |
| April 2020 | Phantom Limb Pain |
| March 2020 | CAR-T Therapy: What is it and who does it help? |
| January 2020 | “The Art of Medicine”: Using the Visual Arts to Move Away from Burn Out and Towards Resiliency in Medical Training |
| December 2019 | Predicting Prognosis in Parkinson’s Disease |
| October 2019 | The Support Consult: Coping Skills in Real Time |
| September 2019 | Undue Influence or Relational Autonomy? When Family Members Steer Medical Decisions |
| August 2019 | Treating Non-Infectious Diarrhea |
| June 2019 | Cultural Implications and Request for Non-Disclosure of Medical Information |
| March 2019 | Pain in the Ads! Adrenal Insufficiency in Palliative Care |
| December 2018 | Cancer Immunotherapy: New Drugs, Old Lessons |
| November 2018 | Bad to the Bone: Management of Cancer Pain Related to Bone Involvement |
| October 2018 | How to Predict Prognosis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| September 2018 | Identifying the Surrogate |
| August 2018 | Conservative Management of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease |
| June 2018 | The Huddle before the Family Meeting |
| April 2018 | Lifting the Fog of Chemobrain: Understanding Cancer Related Cognitive Impairment |
| January 2018 | PTSD in seriously ill Patients: A difficult conundrum |
| December 2017 | Addiction Treatment Options, or “What the Heck is an IOP? |
| November 2017 | A Patient Behaving Very Strangely |
| September 2017 | Treating depression in patients who can’t take oral medications |
| August 2017 | Refractory Dyspnea: Oxygen and Opioids |
| July 2017 | Aortic Stenosis, TAVR, and the Potential Role of Palliative Care |
| June 2017 | Quetiapine for Off-Label Use in Anxiety – What is the evidence? |
| May 2017 | Ketamine – A promising antidepressant? |
| March 2017 | Rage and Ramble, Shiver and Shake – Tacrolimus Neurotoxicity |
| February 2017 | Legacy Projects and Life Review in Palliative Care |
| January 2017 | I Swear I Didn’t Use Any Drugs! |
| October 2014 | Emotion vs. Fact |
More archived “Case of the Month” documents are forthcoming.
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