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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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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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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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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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November | 2014 | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. Trapped In A Nightmare. November 1, 2014. November 4, 2014. It’s been a week now. I genuinely don’t know how I’ve done it. It still feels as raw as it did on the day and, if it’s possible, I miss Jonny more each morning I wake up without him. I am completely uninterested in a life that doesn’t include Jonny Walker. Don’t worry, I’m not suicidal! There are people out there who are literally dying to be alive. End of Life Care. On A Ne...
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Palliative Care? But I am not dying! | Hospice Physician's Blog
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Hospice Physician's Blog. Life of a Hospice and Palliative Care Doctor. But I am not dying! October 23, 2014. October 23, 2014. Karen Mulvihill DNP, APRN, ACHPN, FNP,ACHPN Director of Palliative Care Services, Danbury Hospital. Palliative care is for ANY patient with a chronic illness who is experiencing a decreased quality of life because. Shine On, My Boy →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Hospiceph...