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Strategies for Effective Communication in Palliative Care

Hailey Roumimper, MD

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The Refreshing Intimacy of Home Hospice

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There is More Than One Way to Offer Help: On Death with Dignity in the ICU

Kymberley Armstrong, NP

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“So You Think We Should Just Let Him Die?”

Mohini Dasari, MD

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On Her Last Day Alive, My Patient Asked for Her Hairdresser

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Suffering Is An Essential and Inescapable Part of Humanity

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Dying in a Hospital vs. Dying at Home

Sidney Roberts, MD

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Postcards For My Death: A Story

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The Death Rattle: A Poem

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How My Physics Training Prepared Me for Medicine

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Caring For Children Who Will Never Grow Up

Sahr Yazdani, MD

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A Song of Despair For the Ones Not Healed

Olgert Bardhi, MD

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Bilirubin Dreams: A Lullaby

Slavena Salve Nissan, MD

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We Don’t Have All the Answers: A Med Student’s View on Death and Dying

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Stargazing Atop a Hospital: A Story

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Why Are You Afraid to Ask Your Patient How They Want to Die?

Karen Henry, NP

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Loss of Decisional Capacity Should Not Prevent Dying with Dignity

Elizabeth Bruce, MD

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The Catch-22 of Medicine

Diana Halloran, MD

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Early Detection and Prompt Treatment of Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Very Elderly

Kyle Goleno, PA and 1 other

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What’s the Actual Story in a Patient’s EMR?

Charlotte Grinberg, MD

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How I Unshackled Myself From Academic Medicine

Ashwini Bapat, MD

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There's an Art to End-of-Life Care, and It Has Everything to Do With Communication

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