Tag: palliative care

Jun 25 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Lessons from the bedside

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The hospital is on lockdown due to COVID-19, so visitors are not permitted. He has had no connection with the outside world other than health care personnel.

Mar 26 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

Worrying about loved ones

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When I was practicing as a palliative care doc, I’d see many people come to the ED from their nursing homes with shortness of breath. They were in the ED...

Nov 08 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Dying with dignity: a palliative care comparison

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Stephanie Hinton is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Queen’s University   It’s August 17th. My grandmother died today. She never made it to palliative care. Instead, she was kept...

Oct 29 2018

Student Humanities Blog

To begin at the end

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Serena Arora is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at McMaster University   I love puzzles. I love looking at the picture on the box, seeing what the completed version will...

Oct 22 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Suddenly

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Matthew Lee is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at Dalhousie University   I was totally unsure. Meeting a patient who knows they are going to die… wouldn’t it be intrusive,...

May 07 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Still healing

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Sarah Hanafi is a medical student in the Class of 2018 at the University of Alberta   In healthcare, we sometimes hear the saying, “I went home thinking about that patient.” I thought I...

Jan 15 2017

Medical aid in dying

Visceral responses to law of the heart transgressed; we should not suppress them

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David Falk is a palliative care physician working in Calgary, Alberta   Recently the president of one of the Quebec medical federations published a request to the public to give...

Apr 19 2016

Podcasts

Podcast: How patients perceive palliative care

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Interview with Dr. Camilla Zimmermann, head of the palliative care program at UHN in Toronto, associate professor and Rose family Chair in the Department of Medicine at the University of...

Nov 24 2015

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

When suicide becomes banal

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Dr. Rene Leiva is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Medicine of the University of Ottawa. Part of his work includes in-patient Palliative Care and Care of the...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care

International perspectives on improving end of life care

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Professor Scott A Murray is the St Columba’s Hospice Chair of Primary Palliative Care Research Group at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK   We live in exciting times...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Integrating palliative care into primary care in France

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Sébastien Moine est médecin généraliste en Saint Just en Chaussée, France, et doctorant en santé publique (Université Paris 13) | Sébastien Moine is a GP in Saint Just en Chaussée,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

A Call to Action: Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in the United States

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Anthony J. Caprio, MD, CMD serves as the medical director and an Associate Professor for the Division of Aging, in the Department of Family Medicine for the Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should

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Marianne Dees is a family physician and academic researcher at Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands   Let’s take a look at appropriate end of life care. The case...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Palliative care – everyone’s business!

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Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor of General Practice and Palliative care at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia   The developed world is experiencing a dramatic shift in its demographics,...