July 16, 2019
It Just Happened Again
“The Warden wants to talk with you!” I don’t get a phone call from the…
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July 9, 2019
Celebrating Life Well Lived
My church recently celebrated the nonagenarians within the congregation—lovingly deemed the VIPs, Very Inspiring Persons—and…
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July 2, 2019
Walt Whitman: A Civil War Nurse
For more than twenty years I had in late winter or early spring read and…
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June 25, 2019
Food is Medicine
Food….there is so much food in our society but many don’t have enough. Hangrey ,…
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June 18, 2019
Did You Take Your Lipitor this Morning?
I just completed a week on the inpatient palliative care consult service. Here at University…
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June 11, 2019
Hope!
Often after hearing patients and families talk about their hopes, I would ask for a…
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June 4, 2019
Dax Cowart died
Dax Cowart died last month at the age of 71. Wow. This is the end…
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May 28, 2019
The Road Home
Will really wanted to go home. He had a serious complications from diabetes that had…
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May 21, 2019
I am a palliative care social worker who almost got stuck letting my own mother die in the hospital where she never wanted to be
This is the final part in a 5 part series "I am a palliative care…
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May 14, 2019
I am a palliative care social worker who has made a hundred referrals to hospice
This is part 4 in a 5 part series... Let’s go back up to a…
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