Description: Illinois Media's "Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn" featured an interview with Dr. Robert Martensen (Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Senior Advisor) in November 2008. Dr. Martensen discusses his book A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflection On Illness In A High-Tech Era. Link: Visit Site Media Provided By: Illinois Public Media:The Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn
Description: The link below will take you to "Palliative Care Grand Rounds"; a monthy review of palliative care blogs throughout the internet. This weeks host is geripal (www.geripal.org) a geriatrics and palliative care blog. Geripal starts the review with a lot of interesting links to blog posts that are focused on the death panel and
Description: This link is to the 6th issue of Palliative Care Grand Rounds. This issue's blogger, Tim Cousounis, is managing director of DAI Palliative Care Group, which is a consulting firm that partners with palliative care teams to boost their success. His personal blog, Palliative Care Success, can be found at www.palliativemedicine.blogspot.com/. Blogs are a
Description: This link is to the August issue of "Palliative Care Grand Rounds", a monthy round-up of insightful and often emotional palliative care blogs from around the web. This months host, Risa's Pieces, is a palliative care Nurse Practitioner and writes her own personal blog at www.risaden.blogspot.com/. Blogs are a freeform online journaling that allow
Description: The following is a blog posting from Jeffry Parks MD, a general surgeon from Cleveland, OH. It's a case about an elderly patient he successfully cared for using his palliative medical instincts: "I received a consult one morning on an old guy, ostensibly for "abdominal pain". It was early, before 7:30 and
Synopsis: Mary Oliver is a poet from Province Town, MA and writes mostly about nature. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1984) and the National Book Award (1992). Her most recent collection is Evidence (2009). The following is an excerpt from her poem In Blackwater Woods that was recently published in the New York Times.
Description: Epilogue by Lydia Prescott Thayer What is it in us, especially when we are young, that makes most of us fight for life with such dogged and desperate and passionate persistence? Life is a future we cannot see, mysterious and unpredictable. Yet we choose it, if choice is really ours, even with
Near the end of her life, Carley Cunniff wrote this letter with the assistance of Dr. Peter Dixon and her health care proxies. It is shared here as one example of a health care directive that played a crucial role in guiding caregivers at the end of Carley's life. This letter is part of the
This letter is part of my Healthcare Proxy/Living Will package "To My Health Care Proxy(ies), Anne, Cookie, and Michael: Personal Wishes; Supplemental Thoughts With complete foreknowledge of the consequences of my doing so, I hereby fully relieve and release, and without hesitation or qualification firmly direct and require my Executor(s) to relieve and release each
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