December 3, 2019
Hospice Early-Early Hospice
The Safe Harbor Palliative Care Unit at the Birmingham VAMC had been open for a…
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November 26, 2019
Numb to the Pain
I clicked on the link. A photo of a man, clearly chronically ill, but in…
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November 19, 2019
Cancer Narratives
MD Anderson Cancer Center has changed its branding to scratch the word Cancer out of…
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November 12, 2019
You Did Not Teach Me What You Thought You Did
Carlson’s recent essay in JAMA, “You Did Not Teach Me What You Thought You Did”,…
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November 5, 2019
Palliative Care in Cuba
I was able to visit Cuba just after this country opened its borders to the…
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October 29, 2019
Lost in Translation
I’m jealous! All around me I hear people speaking in different languages. They graciously switch…
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October 22, 2019
Practice Makes…Better
While rounding in the hospital, I met Joel. Joel had a complicated illness that required…
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October 15, 2019
What’s taking so long?
Jennifer Temel’s article in the NEJM was published 9 years ago and has now been…
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October 8, 2019
Staying at Home
Why do people who are enrolled in home hospice go to the Emergency Room or…
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October 1, 2019
Over a Few Beers
Ms. Griffiths was the doyen of her local Methodist Church. Always a smile, a compliment,…
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