Description: I want to draw people's attention to a fantastic new piece in the New Yorker by Atul Gawande titled, "Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?" The stories told are raw and emotional, and offer glimpses into the struggles of patients with life-threatening illnesses, family caregivers, nurses, and physicians.
Description: Enjoy this short video produced by the Hastings Center, featuring interviews with the 2010 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician awardees and information on this years nominations. We are excited for our second year of prizes! Link: Visit Site Media Provided By: The Hastings Center Video: Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content.
Description: In a recent story in the New York Times, Katy Butler described her parents' experiences with illness, the health care system, and the decline of her mother's well-being in-step with her father's physical and cognitive decline. Butler's beautiful account of her parents' lives before the onset of illness and subsequent to her father's stroke,
Description: The Opposite of Love Posted: 17 May 2010 The Emergency Department phoned my office right before lunch. I was on call for our general IM group, so when I was done with my morning schedule I walked across the street to the hospital. Greg, my partner's 38 year old patient, was a woodworker admitted
Description: The controversy behind end-of-life decisions is ever-present in our health system. Is it ethical to go against the wishes of a dying patient? When is end-of-life counseling necessary? Peter and Andrew probe into some of the unknowns, while addressing the controversy with Dr. Robert Martensen, Director of the Office of the National Institutes
Description: Dr. Milch is the inaugural winner of the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Established Physician Award for excellence in clinical care for patients near the end of life and national leadership in palliative care. In this video provided by The Hastings Center, Andy Baxter (Founder of The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation) and Thomas H. Murray, PhD (CEO of
Description: “Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so.” So said Angela Fagerlin and Carl Schneider in 2004. “Living wills are still widely and confidently urged on patients, and they retain the allegiance of many. For these loyal advocates, we offer systematic proof that such persistence in error is but
Description: On my way out of the hospital this evening I ran into a soon-to-be palliative care fellow. Our conversation quickly turned the topic of what one should read prior to beginning a fellowship in order to hit the ground running. This used to be a tough question for me, considering the myriad of key
Description: Saturday, March 20, 2010"Denmark" R.N. just died. She was my first breast cancer patient out of fellowship and training. My first breast cancer patient where I was the "doctor". No backup. Nobody to turn to for advice. I write the orders, I explain the side effects. I hold the hands. She was only 33
Description: Click here for the April edition of Palliative Care Grand Rounds. This month is hosted by blogger Palliative Care Success- he outlines what is happening in the palliative care blogosphere and provides links to all their posts. Topics range from health care reform to futile care and hot discussion topics debating the need for
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