Tag: death and dying

May 21 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Revisiting the no visitors policy

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Even in lock-down, word travels quickly. Friends and family members, once part of the fabric of our floor, now signify an anticipated death.

Dec 21 2018

Dear Dr. Horton

Dear Dr. Horton #7: Mourning

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Dear Dr. Horton. Send the anonymous questions that keep you up at night to a real former Dean of Medical Student Affairs, Dr. Jillian Horton,...

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 01 2018

Student Humanities Blog

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R2) at Queen’s University       The list is long, but I know your name Each day before, its spot was the same Second from...

Sep 27 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Celebrating life in a dignified death

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Arnav Agarwal is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Toronto. Check back the last Thursday of each month for a new featured piece as part of his series (Doc Talks:...

May 31 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Corpse

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Beatrice Preti is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at Queen’s University       It was the strangest of days when I met him first Everything jumping from awful to worse People were...

Mar 15 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Death in medical training

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Sahil Sharma is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Western University   Nearing the end of my first year in Medical School, I am amazed by the wealth of knowledge acquired...

May 13 2016

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

A healthy death

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   When Canada’s Supreme Court struck down the law prohibiting...

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

One of our biggest challenges: The End

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Fred Burge is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.   Finally, a plenary session at NAPCRG on dying. For over twenty years I’ve...