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What is the purpose of Advance Care Planning?
I have been taught to view the goal as helping...
One out of every four of us will die while residing in a nursing home. For most of us, that stay...
I want to draw people's attention to a fantastic new piece in the New Yorker by Atul Gawande titled...
In a recent story in the New York Times, Katy Butler described her parents' experiences with...
The Opposite of Love
Posted: 17 May 2010
The Emergency Department phoned my office right before...
“Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.” So said Angela Fagerlin...
On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our...
Saturday, March 20, 2010
"Denmark"
R.N. just died.
She was my first breast cancer...
Click here for the April edition of Palliative Care Grand Rounds. This month is hosted by...
Many terminal patients linger through their final months with a miserable quality of life and too...
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