

- Nov 6
- 2 min
I Love My Job
When I’m asked what I do, and I answer that I’m a hospice physician, I often feel a sudden downward energetic shift, a palpable sense of...


- Oct 27
- 2 min
Why Not Home?
When I worked at my prior hospice, we were cutting edge. We brought everything we could home. ALS, LVAD’s, decels, intractable-symptom...


- Oct 24
- 2 min
Not Enough
Sometimes what we offer is not enough. We can offer all sorts of modalities to manage decline and we can do it well. But we cannot...


- Sep 6
- 1 min
Healing vs. Cure
Healing and cure are two different entities. Cure, a medical term, doesn’t often come without cost. It is a medicinal or medical “fix...


- Sep 3
- 2 min
30%/100%
What I’m going to write isn’t going to be easy even though it’s the truth. I’ve experienced it time and again in my own jobs, and I feel...


- Aug 22
- 2 min
Something Bad
Something strange has happened in the last few years. I've begun to hate the sound of trees coming down. It's a horrible sound to me,...


- Jun 23
- 3 min
A Mortal Risk
It's a gut-wrenching thing to watch a catastrophe unfold, like the story of the Titantic-seeking submersible where five men died in an...