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Stanley Terman, MD, Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA, San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care

StanleyArnoldTermanMD

Psychiatry San Francisco, CA

Psychopharmacology

Life Transitions Psychiatrist and Director of Caring Advocates. Specializes in Advance Care Planning, esp. for Alzheimer's dementia and other slow terminal, degenerative diseases. Also offers "Now Care Planning" -- to help avoid prolonged dying with suffering in patients whose living wills are inadequate, ineffective, or do not exist. See: http://caringadvocates.org/acp-brochure.php

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Education & Training

  • University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
    University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of MedicineClass of 1975
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Biophysics; Molecular Biology, 1969
  • Brown University
    Brown UniversityA.B., Cum Laude, 1963

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 1978 - 2026
  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2011 - 2013
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

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    Terman SA, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1/1/2016
  • Is the Principle of Proportionality Sufficient to Guide Physicians’ Decisions Regarding Withholding/Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment After Suicide Attempts?  
    Terman SA, American Journal of Bioethics, 1/1/2013
  • It Isn’t Easy Being Pink: Potential Problems with POLST Paradigm Forms  
    Terman SA, Hamline Law Review, 1/1/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • New technology to store, retrieve, and convince future clinicians to honor patients known wishes.
    Terman SA, Gerontological Society of American, 65th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1/14/2012
  • Advance Care Planning using “My Way Cards.”
    Terman SA, Inaugural International Advance Care Planning Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1/22/2010
  • Advance Care Planning using “My Way Cards,” for Advance Care Planning for Advanced Dementia so people can express their treatment preferences for their future decision...
    Terman SA, California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 1/16/2010

Lectures

  • Now Care Planning-so dying can be peaceful and timely for Advanced Dementia patients who lack effective Living Wills. 
    San Francisco, CA - 1/14/2017
  • Beyond Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking: Options to Help Patients Avoid Prolonged Dying in Advanced Dementia, including “Natural Dying”. 
    Seattle School of Law, Seattle, WA - 1/14/2016
  • Avoiding Prolonged Dying in Advanced Dementia: Why is it so important, and how can healthcare professionals help? 
    San Francisco, CA - 1/6/2016
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Other

  • Healthcare Professionals training so patients can avoid prolonged dying in Advanced Dementia. 
    Terman SA
    https://youtu.be/qNqIr3uCfeQ
    1/1/2016
  • To Plan for Advanced Dementia--Consider Natural Dying To Live Longer. Advanced Dementia is challenging in many ways--even in the completion of a Living Will in which p... 
    Terman SA
    https://youtu.be/YFiqdmtv9qQ
    1/30/2015
  • A physicians group's baseless objections to advance care planning. 
    Terman SA, GeriPal Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog
    1/28/2015
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Press Mentions

  • Diagnosed with Dementia, She Documented Her Wishes. They Said No
    Diagnosed with Dementia, She Documented Her Wishes. They Said NoJanuary 21st, 2020

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