Discussing code status is a critical part of the larger goals of care discussion, but code status discussions often happen in emotional and high-stake situations. Directly addressing the high levels ...

Discussing code status is a critical part of the larger goals of care discussion, but code status discussions often happen in emotional and high-stake situations. Directly addressing the high levels ...

Dr. Lou completed his Internal Medicine Residency at UBC and subsequently his Palliative Medicine Subspeciality also at UBC. His interests include serious illness conversation, narrative medicine and ...

I learned that a palliative approach to care and serious illness conversations address and manage patients’ and families’ psychological, practical, social, loss/grief, spiritual, and physical issues ...

Content filed under the Addiction Medicine category. Since the publication of the 2020 ATS Clinical Practice Guideline on pharmacologic treatment in tobacco-dependent adults, I now explain the goals ...

Patient satisfaction and continuation rates are very well documented for various contraceptives in Canada. Among the combined hormonal contraceptives ⁠— the pill, patch, and ring ⁠— only 50% of people ...

Author. Heather Fulton PhD RPsyc (biography and disclosures). Disclosures: The author is a provider of Community Reinforcement and Family Training/Invitation to Change approaches however she has no ...

I now advocate for deprescribing gabapentin when patients do not achieve adequate pain relief for chronic neuropathic pain at a cumulative daily dose of 1800 mg. Instead, I consider pregabalin as a ...

Content filed under the Internal Medicine category. Since the publication of the 2020 ATS Clinical Practice Guideline on pharmacologic treatment in tobacco-dependent adults, I now explain the goals of ...

Several years ago, I started a 40 something y/o patient on uric lowering medication even though he had no history of gouty flare. He had significant family history (father and several uncles all died ...

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I learned that a palliative approach to care and serious illness conversations address and manage patients' and families' psychological, practical, social, loss/grief, spiritual, and physical issues ...