Should Life Expectancy Affect Treatment?

Should Life Expectancy Affect Treatment?

Consider this: a woman is hospitalized for pneumonia and her admission chest x-ray shows an “incidental pulmonary nodule,” or a growth in the lungs. Should she receive serial follow-up imaging to determine the presence of cancer? Of course! She may have cancer, and who wouldn’t want to know for sure…

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Another Terrifying—but Enlightening--Study

Another Terrifying—but Enlightening--Study

At least once a week for the last 10 years, I have probably said or written that our fragmented and myopic, episodically focused system of care doesn’t meet the needs of older adults with complex, chronic health problems. And if there is one growing aging issue that throws even more…

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