IDSA applauds Senate leadership for introduction of S. 3
...and Arlen Specter (R-PA), all of whom chair Senate committees with jurisdiction over the bill; and Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Democratic ranking members of the same three committees....More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
... 91 specialties accredited by the residency review committees of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). They found, as of 2003, that only 27 of the 91 specialties had specific geriatric training requirements. And these requirements, say the authors, have very modest expectations. "In ......ar cases were handled elsewhere. "Clinical ethics committees cannot alone cope with the demands of ethically troubled doctors at the coalface. The use of clinical ethicists would represent an important step forward," he concludes....