October 2, 2018
Don’t Care About
Recently, we have been caring for a homeless veteran. We call him Mr. J; we…
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September 20, 2018
Burning Up! Burning Out!
There is a fever in healthcare. “We are Burning UP! About Burning Out!” Many of us feel burned out at times. Then we read how our colleagues are reporting they…
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August 30, 2018
Can we talk? Apparently no.
Last week I was trying out my new camper-trailer driving on a dirt road in…
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August 23, 2018
A Good Day to Die?
Zeke Emanuel, a famous physician-ethicist, has widely written and spoken about his hope to die at 75. He does seem to be something of a showboat, announcing this hope 4…
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May 29, 2018
Pathways to Palliative Care – Judy Knudson, MPAS, PA-C
We have all found our way to End-of-Life care and what we do for our…
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May 25, 2018
Is Grandma Still Part of Our Family?
This is the earnest question I heard from a 5-year old girl to her mother as they left the church after the funeral. Brave of this mother to bring her…
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May 2, 2018
Mostly Dead
In The Princess Bride, the hero Wesley appears to have succumb to torture and has…
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April 26, 2018
Rocket Science
I loved this carton as a kid. The clearly crooked rocket that would probably…
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April 11, 2018
Agitated Delirium in the Last Days of Life
We only die once. We only have one time to get it right. Working on…
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March 26, 2018
Seismic Tremors lead to Earthquake?
The recent New Yorker article entitled “The Death Debate”, a review of the case of…
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