When Modern Medicine Cannot Cure, It Must Still Care
Every practising physician eventually encounters the difficult "nothing more we can do" moment. A patient with advanced malignancy, end-stage renal disease, or progressive motor ne...
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Every practising physician eventually encounters the difficult "nothing more we can do" moment. A patient with advanced malignancy, end-stage renal disease, or progressive motor ne...
Alzheimer’s disease gradually affects memory, judgment, communication, mobility, and personal care. As abilities change, families face decisions about symptom relief, treatment lim...
September 02, 2026 | Source: Psychology Today | by Jill Schwartz-Chevlin M.D., M.B.A. When I reflect on my 20 years of practicing palliative medicine, the biggest takeaway is how...
Serious illness has a way of narrowing life. As a palliative care physician, I've learned that facing the end of life can teach us more about living well than almost anything else.
Before my grandfather entered hospice, I believed it was where physicians sent patients to die. I saw it as the end of treatment, a quiet admission that medicine had given up. It w...
Letter to the Observer from Baroness Claire Fox I was glad to hear the new prime minister state last week that, before there’s a wider debate on the principle of assisted dying, “t...
Readers respond to an article by Dr Zubir Ahmed, who argued that better palliative care should be prioritised before assisted dying is legalisedI work as a renal physician, includi...
Every day in family meetings across the United States, we clinicians are delivering difficult truth to a family: Their loved one is nearing the end of life, and comfort-focused car...
from Religion Media Centre Lord David Blunkett has joined more than 58,000 people and almost 300 MPs and peers in a campaign calling on the government to improve end-of-life care,...
The last parliament session ended with one of the most impassioned and emotional votes Holyrood has ever seen.
Näyttelijä Seela Sella on hoidettavana palliatiivisella osastolla. Tyksin palliatiivisen keskuksen ja kotisairaalan ylihoitaja kertoo, mitä palliatiivinen hoito on ja miten se eroa...
In another post, I’ve shared the story of Mrs. F, a very ill older woman with cancer who said she didn’t want to go to the hospital, even though she wasn’t on hospice. Now, I want...
‘We have the privilege of seeing a lot of love,’ Kristen Kappel says – with death ‘the most beautiful, satisfying, precious part of our role’Follow our Australia news live blog for...
As a pain specialist who manages cancer-related pain daily with both interventional and non-interventional approaches, I still encounter a frustrating reality: Too many patients su...
At present, I am caring for several frail, bedridden older adults through home-based care. Some have advanced dementia. Others have end-stage heart failure, stroke, advanced cancer...
When my father was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, I made him a promise. I told him I would not let him die in a hospital. I had been an ICU nurse for years by then. I knew w...
Juliet: it is cruel to force anyone to endure excruciating suffering indefinitely. À palliative care doctor told me he’d only seen such suffering twice in his career. Palliative...
Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind. — Atul GawandeIn his article, Demystifying Hospice Care, medical news and information rep...
More than thirty-four years in long-term care, first as a social worker and admissions director in skilled nursing, later on the technology side, I have sat with countless families...
People at the end of life don’t want to go somewhere clinical – they want to go somewhere that means something to them
Some seriously ill patients improve on hospice. About 1 in 16 patients enrolled in hospice care lose eligibility as a result. Here’s how to get appropriate care after receiving a t...
In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
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