Converting portions of the VitalTalk #covid communication primer into graphics for folks having tough conversations. Will finish and share as pdf as much as I can before returning to hospital work. #hapc #pallicovid #medtwitter #graphicmedicine #FOAMed

amzn.to/2BePilZ New resource for non-palliative care clinicians wishing to improve palliative skills. Spanning ED, IM, ICU, surgery, and more; each case chapter written by dual-practicing physicians intended for their own specialty's colleagues. Grateful to our authors!

Financial stewardship is never the goal for palliative intervention, but is often a consequence. Early ED-based consult initiation is clinically, operationally, and financially impactful. bit.ly/3keBys8

Humbled to highlight the RushPalliative/RUSH Emergency Medicine Residency program in @ACEPNow's newsletter. Also included are several surprising prognostication #pearls. #MedTwitter

Let's move one step closer to mitigating some hospice patients from unknowingly and unwillingly returning to their local emergency department. Adherence to end of life wishes against "default care" is a patient safety, quality, and medicolegal concern. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36961936/

Social media opening up conversations about end of life care for the next generation: bit.ly/19XvrD1

"As the price of admission, medicine implicitly asks its members to leave aspects of themselves behind": nyti.ms/16wjXiw

A recent pacemaker deactivation patient reminds me of this piece years ago on understanding a meaningful end of life: nyti.ms/GSwua5

ACEP prioritizes "early referral to palliative/hospitve services" directly from the ED as one of 2013's top 5 cost-effectiveness initiatives

New RAND-UCLA study: 20% of ICU patients receive "futile" care. bit.ly/1hwwpIE #hpm #healthcarespending #pallimed #palliative

Novel card game introduces difficult end of life conversations in lower-stakes scenarios: bit.ly/1kc7jRL #palliative #hpm #pallimed

Successful model brings palliative care into the ED: the next frontier approaches. bit.ly/1cTNPw9 #hpm #palliative

New Pallimed Post: "Incompatible With Life," Compatible With Love: Perinatal Hospice and Palliative Care bit.ly/2eagBPH #hpm

Aligning Quality and Cost Savings Through Home Based #Palliative Care goo.gl/fb/XfDKpZ #hpm

Beyond Code Status: we can & need to do more & better at the end of life in the ED, by David Wang in AnnalsofEM annemergmed.com/article/S0196-…

Another sobering reminder that medicine is not practiced in a vacuum. x.com/hospicedave/st…

GeriPal - how will video advance directives help frontline providers deliver more aligned care? geripal.org/2017/03/qualit…

Not asking (and not following) advance directives may soon be litigatable medical error: nyti.ms/2oiyykF

What happens when a physician-assisted dying patient (PAD/PAS/EOLOA) arrives to your emergency department? Prepare. bit.ly/2z1poPN

Among adults 65+ who are emergently intubated, 1 in 3 will die during hospitalization, only 1 in 4 discharged home. Sobering and impt work by Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH x.com/agsjournal/sta…