I was part of a team of palliative care providers that developed and later worked in the Safe Harbor Palliative Care Unit at the VA Medical Center in Birmingham Alabama. …
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I always talk to my Lyft driver. Recently, I was attending a conference in another city so I was taking a Lyft a couple of times a day. As usual…
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…
We only die once. We only have one time to get it right. Working on a palliative care team I have had the honor of caring for thousands of patients…
Every aspect of the person is affected by serious and life-limiting illness. This is also true for family members who care for their loved ones in times of illness. Healthcare…
Beginning on January 1, 2019, Physician Assistants can begin billing for their services and join hospice providers to care for our dying. In the early morning hours of February 9,…
I am old enough to remember the thrill of the movie “The Great Escape.” Steve McQueen and his buddies are prisoners of war attempting an escape from a Nazi prison…
I did not come to palliative care in the usual way. Most of my colleagues saw the need from an oncology or hospice perspective. I was just a primary care…
Palliative care services are often lacking in rural settings. While I work at the University of Colorado on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, I live in rural Colorado and…
In June 2015, I wrote about the need for new training programs in palliative care, because of the projected shortage in providers. At that time I wrote that Amos Bailey,…