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September | 2014 | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. September 4, 2014. September 4, 2014. I’ve had the honor of serving many fascinating individuals with life-limiting illnesses. I’ve considered them some of the best teachers I’ve ever had in the nuances of medicine and life. Treating patients who come from the medical community is a particularly unique experience for me. Later that evening, however, as if some higher part of my brain knew that it was safe to let my guard down I did&#...
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December | 2013 | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. December 1, 2013. Patient turnover is pretty high in hospice work. It comes with the territory of serving a patient panel with a limited prognosis. When a patient quickly comes and goes off our service and I’m made aware of their death, my usual response is either irrationally impractical ( but I was going to see them tomorrow! Or slightly sentimental ( I wish I had more time to know them better. ). I hadn’t prepared any words any cl...
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Judy K. Underwood, Ph.D. provides resources for death and dying issues
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Resources to help with End-of-Life Issues. Judy K. Underwood, Ph.D. YouTube Randy Pausch Last Lecture. 46 yr old college professor diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer gives lecture about what’s important in life while he is still looking healthy and vibrant. 2007 motion picture starring Sally Fields is about a mother's dying and her three thirty-something children who care for her. Available through Blockbuster and Netflix. Http:/ blog.oregonlive.com/multimedia/living to the end/. The 5 Wishes docu...
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August | 2013 | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. How Do You Want To Live? August 2, 2013. 8220;She said she wants everything done,” “really? 8217; She said she wanted to live.”. I myself just had another birthday. Do I want to be one year closer to 40? Rather, for the time you have left, how do you want to live? The following is a great quote from an unknown author. You only live once. You live every day, you only die once. Care for All jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx? Hospicephy...
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. October 19, 2014. I feel such an overwhelming sense of love when I look at my baby boy asleep in the hospice bed. He’s thinner, his bones stick out, his face is sallow, his eyes heavy and black, but my gosh is that boy still gorgeous to me. He’s still the most handsome man I’ve laid eyes on. His strength, bravery and positivity still radiate from him in a glow of warmth that fills the room. October 19, 2014. We decided to tell her Zo...
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Love Locked | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. October 20, 2014. October 20, 2014. I’m going to write about the past. Jonny is very near the end and today is not the day to delve into how that makes me feel. He has not woken up for over 15 hours and when the time comes, he will go. And it will be right. And we’ll be okay. I think. But I am not dying! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. The origins, developme...
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The Secret Lives of Doctors | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. The Secret Lives of Doctors. October 26, 2014. May 9, 2015. 8221; way.”. This was an excerpt taken from a great short piece written by Starla Fitch, MD for the Huffington Post ( Link. I think it’s very enlightening to the lay community about how doctors think and live their lives with the patient mostly being central to it. Although I did identify with most of the piece, I felt very drawn to the paragraph I quoted above. IVP on Hospi...
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. May 27, 2016. I think end of life first registered when I was 9 years old. I found a copy of Kubler Ross’s On death and Dying in my home. Probably present because of my father’s exposure to his own father’s untimely death at 50 years old. and I preceded to weep on the front porch where my parents found me. No, Darla, no one is dying. My brother came home that night and said Don’t worry, Darla, he just has headaches. The next morn...
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March | 2014 | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. March 1, 2014. But sometimes I forget that even when everything is done right in a situation made to ease one’s passage surrounded by love and goodness, a natural death can still be ugly. It’s the exception to the rule, but it doesn’t make picking up the pieces any easier. Turn it off, now,. I thought to myself, tucking away any thoughts of my own daughter. Turn that off, and turn on what he needs. Is this the end? Before I could man...
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Change | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. October 19, 2014. This is the last post from HPMFellow as a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow. I’m proud to now call her a colleague and I look forward to working with her in the field. I hope she will continue to share her experiences, thoughts and insights. Thank you HPMFellow and good luck! So we told her Zoe had died and become a star. Her current favorite word. Because she was very, very sick and very old. But where is she?
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