April 23, 2019
PART 1: I am a palliative care social worker who believes intrinsically that there are things worse than death
My mom had a catastrophic stroke in December of 2017 – almost five years to…
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April 16, 2019
Trippy!
There has been a number of articles, videos, and books on the role of psychedelic…
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April 9, 2019
Music and art in serious illness. Seriously!
Palliative care professionals works tirelessly to meet the comprehensive needs of those patients and loved…
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April 2, 2019
Starting Dialysis?
Art Buchwald was a famous newspaper columnist! He even won a Pulitzer Prize, he was…
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March 26, 2019
The “blood thinner” quiz
What would you do with an 89-year-old woman who walks with a walker, and you find in “a…
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March 19, 2019
You Belong to the Earth: Connection through Ritual
Facilitating spiritual and cultural rituals as desired by patients and families is an important component…
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March 12, 2019
A Study of Hands
Reflective writing is an important part of my spiritual practice and my wellbeing as a…
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March 5, 2019
Throw me a Life Line
I first started making “house calls” to my home hospice patients in 1989. It was…
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February 26, 2019
Helpless
That is how you feel when a good friend is dealing with her own palliative…
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February 19, 2019
Palliative Care and Guns
I had visited Mr. Williams several times over the last few months. In his early…
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