
Dr. Alexander Keliimoeanu Smith MD
Internist
55 Fruit St Fnd 600 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Alexander Smith is an internist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Smith specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Smith provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 1970
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Differences in the quality of the patient-physician relationship among terminally ill African-American and white patients: impact on advance care planning and treatment preferences.
- Racial/ethnic disparities in liver transplant surgery and hospice use: parallels, differences, and unanswered questions.
- The death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life.
- Length of stay for older adults residing in nursing homes at the end of life.
- Discussing overall prognosis with the very elderly.
- Prognostic indices for older adults: a systematic review.
- Quality of life in late-life disability: "I don't feel bitter because I am in a wheelchair".
- Half of older Americans seen in emergency department in last month of life; most admitted to hospital, and many die there.
- The problem with actually tattooing DNR across your chest.
- Use of the Medicare posthospitalization skilled nursing benefit in the last 6 months of life.
- Perceptions of successful aging among diverse elders with late-life disability.
- Every patient is an individual: clinicians balance individual factors when discussing prognosis with diverse frail elderly adults.
- Advance care planning and the quality of end-of-life care in older adults.
- Palliative care: an approach for all internists: comment on "Early palliative care in advanced lung cancer: a qualitative study".
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Diabetes
- Glaucoma
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Nearsightedness
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Practice At 55 Fruit St Fnd 600
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