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Doctoring Hospice/Palliative Care ICD/Pacemaker

ICD deactivation in the NY Times — with a quote from a blogger

The news came via a direct message on Twitter. “You got a plug in the NY times. Congrats.” (Thanks Dr. Jay Schloss.) Paula Span, author of the NY Times’ The New Old Age Blog, reported today on the issue of cardiac device deactivation in patients who are approaching end of life. The role I had […]

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Exhaust is bad for you. Go figure…

Sometimes I wonder about putting mind-numbing, boring and trivial words out into the internet world. It must be a very slow news day in New York, or the reporter must have friends in high places to get a story published in the Times on how vehicle exhaust may be linked to respiratory illness or heart […]