March 19, 2019
You Belong to the Earth: Connection through Ritual
Facilitating spiritual and cultural rituals as desired by patients and families is an important component…
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March 12, 2019
A Study of Hands
Reflective writing is an important part of my spiritual practice and my wellbeing as a…
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March 5, 2019
Throw me a Life Line
I first started making “house calls” to my home hospice patients in 1989. It was…
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February 26, 2019
Helpless
That is how you feel when a good friend is dealing with her own palliative…
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February 19, 2019
Palliative Care and Guns
I had visited Mr. Williams several times over the last few months. In his early…
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February 12, 2019
“It’s Just a Business”
“It’s not personal. It’s just business.” Is healthcare a business? Should it be a business? …
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February 5, 2019
Instructions for Living a Life: A Tribute to Mary Oliver
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. This stanza from…
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January 29, 2019
Making Meaning
Victor Frankel’s book Man’s Search for Meaning outlines his experiences in the holocaust, the loss of his family and all that was precious to him, and his continued search and…
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January 22, 2019
Grandad Has a Fever!
Over the weekend one of our hospice patients had been brought to the Emergency Department…
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January 15, 2019
Palliative Care: It’s not Just Hospice Anymore
The University of Colorado's Palliative Care Coursera Specialization launched about a month ago and people…
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