Jessica Zitter has gotten to be one of my favorite end-of-life writers. Watch her great video called “Extreme Measures”! She also writes some New York Times essays that I use…
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Dax Cowart died last month at the age of 71. Wow. This is the end of a life that has challenged so many of us in bioethics. His legacy is…
This is the final part in a 5 part series “I am a palliative care social worker….” I am a palliative care social worker who believes intrinsically that there are…
This is part 3 in the series “I am a palliative care social worker….” After we opted against surgery, they very reasonably moved mom from the ICU to receive “comfort…
This is part 2 in the series “I am a palliative care social worker….” While taking input from specialists in this frantic time prior to making the final decision to…
My mom had a catastrophic stroke in December of 2017 – almost five years to the day after a more mild one – that ended her life at the age…
What would you do with an 89-year-old woman who walks with a walker, and you find in “a fib” two years after her last ECG? I might not thin her blood. And just a…
Facilitating spiritual and cultural rituals as desired by patients and families is an important component of holistic palliative care. The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care makes this clear…
Reflective writing is an important part of my spiritual practice and my wellbeing as a healthcare professional. I’m grateful for recent collaborations with The Human Touch, a literary journal for…