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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...

When I worked at my prior hospice, we were cutting edge. We brought everything we could home. ALS, LVAD’s, decels, intractable-symptom...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...