Wurzweiler Palliative Care Conference Highlights Opportunities and Challenges for Palliative Care Social Work
On March 25, 2011, the Wurzweiler School of Social Work and the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN) co-hosted Innovations in Palliative Care Social Work: Emerging Models, Effective Strategies. The conference was also co-sponsored by Columbia’s and New York University’s Schools of Social Work. Attended by approximately 185 students and professionals, the conference [...]
Palliative Care Grand Rounds 2.10
Palliative-SW is very pleased to host the October Palliative Care Grand Rounds (PCGR). As newcomers to this kind of blogging and still learning the ropes since our summer 2010 launch, we can’t think of a better way to get our feet wet. If you’re visiting us for the first time, Palliative-SW is an emerging blog [...]
New York Palliative Care Information Act
The New York Times journalist Jane Brody writes Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End an article published yesterday on the New York Palliative Care Information Act. The new bill, signed by New York governor Patterson, states that New York doctors and nurse practitioners must speak with terminally ill patients about hospice, palliative care and [...]
Spread the Word: Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds
A new study was published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine and quickly picked up by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other media outlets. The story will likely lead to saturation for palliative care professionals, and in the wider population break [...]
The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler
Dr. Robert Butler (83), Pulitzer Prize winning author of Why Survive? Being Old in America (Harper & Row, 1975), died Sunday, July 4, in New York City of acute leukemia. Butler, a psychiatrist, idealist and scholar, contributed much to the field of aging, coining the term “ageism” to describe discrimination against the elderly, and the [...]
Controversial NY Times Article
A front-page article in the New York Times featured the story of Dr. Desiree Pardi, a palliative care doctor with breast cancer, who died on Sept 6, 2009. Here are links to theoriginal article published on April 4th and letters to the editor published on April 10th. Desiree’s husband, Rob Pardi, wrote to Pallimed Blog asserting that [...]
NY Times Columnist Writes About Her Loss
Jane Brody is a New York Times Personal Health columnist who frequently writes on end-of-life issues. Jane recently experienced the death of her husband on March 18th and has been publishing articles on her experience, including, The Pain of Losing a Spouse is Singular, printed yesterday in the New York Times. Though her new book, Jane Brody’s Guide to [...]
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