Dec 10, 20242 min read
Brian Thompson’s Murder: the insanity of pain
I started this blog because I knew that everything in the world came back to palliation. That is to say, everything in the world comes...
Oct 9, 20242 min read
Learning to Accept
Life is all about palliation. And palliation is about learning to accept. Learning to accept doesn't mean losing hope, or stopping...
Jul 27, 20242 min read
Dying vs. Dying Well
It’s not always easy to know if you’re doing the right thing. When you’re medicating at the end of life, you hope that what you are...
Jul 23, 20242 min read
Thankless
There's a myth in medicine, somewhat of a noble lie perpetrated by the industry so to speak, which has a profound impact. This myth is...
May 2, 20242 min read
Giving Up
I am an optimist. I want my patients to have hope, I want to help them keep hope. And when I see a patient who has the potential to...
Mar 1, 20242 min read
A Garden of Hope
We can choose two routes, especially depending on the urgency of the diagnosis. We can choose to feel disempowered, or we can consider...
Feb 26, 20242 min read
Life in Literary Terms
A (quiet) little note, I avidly write verse. It's actually one of the forms of writing I like best, free and open-heartedly expressive,...