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…
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“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…
My church recently celebrated the nonagenarians within the congregation—lovingly deemed the VIPs, Very Inspiring Persons—and I was amazed to learn that we have twenty members ninety years old and above!…
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…
Will really wanted to go home. He had a serious complications from diabetes that had resulted in poor blood flow to his feet and legs and now he had two…
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 4 in a 5 part series… Let’s go back up to a critical point. I had pleaded for this hospice evaluation, but was afraid. We had no…
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…