Showing posts with label Dying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dying. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011

More senior citizens are dying at home - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

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By John Dorschner jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com After years of experts and patient...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Dealing with Death and Dying | Myths of Coping with Death | Caring.com

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By Paula Spencer , Caring.com senior editor People often adhere to a code of conduct about the end of life that'...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Quality of Death and Dying in Patients who Request Physician-Assisted Death - Journal of Palliative Medicine

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Background: Physician-assisted death (PAD) was legalized in 1997 by Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ODDA). Through 2009, 460 Oregonia...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Faith Friends by Nancy Haygood, Hospice Poems, Stories of Death and Dignity

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Dying is final, but passing on lives forever

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by Greg Smith, MD It is hard to believe that those we love will die. We can’t bear it. It’s too harsh, too complicated, too fraught with e...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Don't Put Off Talking About The Inevitable: Care At Life's End : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR

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With no end in sight to the controversy about whether doctors should be paid to discuss end-of-life options with patients, we thought no...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Saving Grace (Emergency Department Nurses)- LA Times Magazine

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“I heard a guttural scream,” Rich says, “and a man was handing me his lifeless son.” “How old?” I ask. “Nine months. We worked on h...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Helping patients experience death, PhillyBurbs.com:  

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A handful of local hospitals recently started volunteer programs that train ordinary people to sit with those who are alone and dying. ...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Death in a hospital is not always comfortable, KevinMD.com

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In America, too many people die in the hospital. I don’t mean that they die due to medical error or incompetence, though that’s always a ho...

The cost of keeping the terminally ill alive, KevinMD.com

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Last year, Medicare paid $55 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives. And it has been es...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories

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Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories :"Occasionally, we are graced with the presence of an earth b...