Douglas White

Apr 19, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Douglas White |Thaddeus M. Pope

Perspective On September 1, 2023, Texas revised its decades-old statute granting legal safe harbor immunity to physicians who withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment over the objection of critically ill patients’ surrogate decision-makers.

Nov 12, 2023 | healio.com | Rob Volansky |Shenaz Bagha |Douglas White

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Sep 15, 2023 | healio.com | Erich Martin |Shenaz Bagha |Douglas White |Leonard Calabrese

You've successfully added Rheumatology: Practice Management to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. The rheumatology community is mourning the death of Frederick Wolfe, MD, who contributed invaluably to the world of medical research and was instrumental in classifying fibromyalgia.

May 21, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Douglas White |Sarah Andersen |J. Randall Curtis |Robert Lee

Goals-of-care conversations between clinicians and patients with serious illness have been shown to improve measures of patient and family well-being, while also decreasing health care costs and high-intensity treatments at the end of life.1,2 Nonetheless, achieving the goal of skillful, timely goals-of-care conversations for hospitalized patients with serious illness remains a challenge due to a multitude of patient, clinician, and system-level factors, including clinician discomfort and...

Apr 1, 2023 | jnccn.org | Michael Cohen |Andrew D. Althouse |Robert Arnold |Douglas White

BackgroundAs patients near the end of their lives, they are often unable to understand and engage in complex medical decision-making.