I remember the young woman, Ella, getting ready to graduate from High School, but now lying in a hospital bed. Her Dad was with her, but no Mom? I don’t…
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I just heard that a dear friend was diagnosed with cancer. We had dinner together less than 2 months ago and now he was in the hospital, having surgery followed…
Last week another person with chronic Hepatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma was seen by the Palliative Care team. There was a lot of discussion of new treatments, such as tumor…
As a healthcare provider I am asked to weigh in on pain management by both patients and family members. Usually it is to treat a bad sprain or other recreational…
I am of two minds. As a hospice doctor I visited a lot of people at home. I loved making home visits! The familiar smells of home cooking, the loved…
“The Warden wants to talk with you!” I don’t get a phone call from the Warden of the Penitentiary very often. “What could this possibly be about?” I picked up…
For more than twenty years I had in late winter or early spring read and re-read a collection of Walt Whitman poems. A few years ago, we moved to Colorado,…
Food….there is so much food in our society but many don’t have enough. Hangrey , the smash up of hungry and angry. The idea being that we often get grumpy…
I just completed a week on the inpatient palliative care consult service. Here at University of Colorado, like any medical center, we see lots of people living with serious illness….