Showing posts with label terminal illnesses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terminal illnesses. Show all posts
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Hospice Nurses, End of Life Nursing, #SpecialtyNursing, #nursefriendly #healthcare #nurses #nursing #hospice #eolchat #hpm

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New! Gwenn Dalton, RN, Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC :"Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC understands that care is more than tending ...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian Dies; Death With Dignity Proponent Remembered

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Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian, otherwise known as "Doctor Death" fell victim Friday to a blood clot that released from his leg...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Sarah's Tears by Tony Collins, LVN, Inspirational Nursing Stories

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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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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Palliative care can lead to higher quality of live and longer survival

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by John Schumann, MD Every once in awhile amidst the weekly deluge of medical articles comes a show-stopper that has the potential to cha...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Slowing health costs requires answering 3 simple questions

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by Donald H. Taylor, Jr., PhD If we ever slow health care cost inflation to a sustainable pace, it will be because we learn how to ask 3 ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

The internet gives patients and caregivers access not only to information, but also to each other. | Pew Internet & American Life Project

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Many Americans turn to friends and family for support and advice when they have a health problem. This report shows how people’s networks a...
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...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Discussing cancer treatment with the terminal patient, KevinMD.com

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“Are you giving up on me?” My patient looks at me severely. “There must be other treatment options! Aren’t there some experimental drug...
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...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Make-A-Wish Foundation : About Us

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Welcome to Wish.org, the online home of the nation’s largest wish-granting organization. Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation ® has give...