GlassHospital has been featured in a publication produced down the road at FancyHospital. I’m delighted to share with you the recently published issue No. 8 of Atrium, available free for download by clicking on the link here. Many readers know of my ‘wisdom’ project in which I brought together a retired biochemist and a retired [...]
[Editor's note: I've truncated this post because it was picked up by Slate for their Medical Examiner column. Check it out over there & feel free to comment there and here! -GH] A year ago, U.K. officials released convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi to Libya on humanitarian grounds, based on a prediction that he [...]
25Feb10
A Good Death
In America, too many people die in the hospital. I don’t mean that they die due to medical error or incompetence, though that’s always a hot topic of discussion amongst doctors, researchers, administrators, and regulators. What I mean is that if you ask most people, they say they’d rather die at home, surrounded by their [...]
