105 posts tagged palliative

Three reasons to support the Irish Hospice Foundation - our latest campaign for the Irish Hospice Foundation. 1. So seriously ill children receive the best palliative care available, at home with their families. 2. To encourage all Irish hospitals to take on the Hospice approach to end of life care.

Pain and Palliative Care by Maggie Mahar “His heart filled virtually his whole chest,” recalls Dr. Diane Meier describing her very first patient, an 89-year-old suffering from end-stage congestive heart failure.

I have a piece up on today's First Things daily about assisted suicide and how it corrupts palliative care. From my column: For the past two decades, euthanasia/assisted-suicide ideologues have worked overtime to conflate palliative care--the medical alleviation of pain and other distressing symptoms of serious illness--with intentionally ending the life of the patient.

Dr. Rodney Tucker, Medical Director of the UAB Palliative and Comfort Care Unit, was recently featured in a Washington Post article on the impact of technology and life and death decisions. Download the entire article here:  Washington Post Article - April 24, 2008.

Walking down the hallway this morning, I caught a glimpse of someone lying in bed reading the paper. The room looked dim, blinds lowered almost to the windowsill. I took a few more steps and, without further thinking, turned around, knocked and entered. The patient, call him Mr.

On the left is Dr Mireille Lecours - the nearest to a saint that we have on PEI - she attended both my in laws in their last year and was Robin's GP during her Cancer treatment. How we are born and how we die is surely a marker of who were are as a culture.

As the old saying goes, the two things that you can’t avoid are death and taxes. Taxes may be minimized or postponed by creative tax planning, but as Hebrews 9:27 tells us, death is something that we will all face someday, so understanding the role of hospice may help you or someone you love be more prepared to better face that event..

For Physician Assistant, Empathy Goes Two Ways By ANTHONY RAMIREZ Published: May 5, 2008 This is a story about health care that is not universal. There is a name attached: John C. Welton, from the Bronx, father of two and husband to Vivian. Mr. Welton is a physician assistant.

By Elizabeth Chaitin, MSW, MA, DHCE Originally posted at the Institute to Enhance Palliative Care, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Vol 8, No. 1 - February 2008 (Original PDF) Case: Mr. James Martin is 74-year-old man admitted to an outside hospital with a two-month history of shortness of breath, edema, and recent difficulty ambulating.

Relieving cancer-related dyspnea: practical tips Posted May 11th, 2008 by InteractMD dyspnea Heme/Onc palliative care shortness of breath I love papers like the one published this week in JCO: a systematic literature review on interventions to treat cancer-related dypnea.