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What would it be like if we gave the elderly the time and the information to make their own decisions about the level of medical care given to them as they approach the final hour? That's the idea behind slow medicine, which is described in a New York Times article by Jane Gross.
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Last Thursday evening, I tuned into PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer to catch up with the latest news across the world. One of the segments quickly grabbed my interest - homes with robotics designed to help care for the frail and elderly, especially those who are not able to care for themselves.
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All things old can be new again. In an opinion column in yesterday's Boston Globe, Dr. Elizabeth Kass, medical director of Urban Medical, and Dr. Mark Zeidel, chief of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, suggested that that the long-lost medical house call is returning to our society and, in fact, may become a cost-effective way... Read more
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