why-i-practice-dying-a-nurses-perspective 
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? I have a lot of questions, because I have never worked within end-of-life doula in my 20 years of doing palliative care. John: I do. When I heard Bubbles Up, I was really struck by two things.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers.
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Hospice News
MAY 8, 2023
Few businesses have to work as hard as hospices to dispel myths and misconceptions about their practices. The mobile practice is focused on caring for patients who have been discharged alive from hospice until they once again are deemed eligible. I actually became interested in end-of-life care in medical school.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie: Oh my gosh, can’t believe I’ve been here more than once now.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary One of the things I love about Liz Dzeng’s work is the way in which it draws upon, echoes, and advances our understanding of the influence of culture on the end of life experience. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
As a clinical ethicist for more than 20 years, I’ve been really engaged in end-of-life care in particular, with about 80% of my work life around death and dying — especially in ICU settings and critical care medicine. Over the years, I have always asked the question, “Why can’t we do this better?,”
AJN Off the Charts
JULY 19, 2023
I’ve been fascinated by death as long as I remember. Just before I turned eight, my Grampa Lewis died. I remember that Dad parked the station wagon with faux wood paneling in the hospital lot and we all got out and stood there in cold December sunlight. At the funeral, I grappled with whether or not to look into the casket.
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