‘More At Peace’: Interpreters Key To Easing Patients’ Final Days
Alfredo David lay in bed, looking deflated under an Avengers blanket, as a doctor, two nurses, and medical interpreter Veronica Maldonado entered his hospital room. He wrapped up a call from his wife, then fiddled idly with his phone. He had received distressing news...
More to dying than meets the eye
Those who work with the dying are familiar with patients seeing long deceased loved ones, angelic beings, even hearing music and comforting voices as the patient nears death. Deathbed phenomena have been documented in the days, weeks, and months before death since the...
Sharing decision making around hospice
Researchers seek solutions to increase shared decision-making among terminally ill While there is vast research on shared decision-making between patients and providers, little research exists on how providers and family caregivers reach mutual decisions — a dynamic...
A thank you to our hospice carers
October 10th was World Hospice Day. We asked our community how hospice helped them and their families. This is what they had to say: Thank You! In a world, fearful of death and dying, hospice caregivers, understand the journey in a way that other healthcare...
A racial gap in attitudes toward hospice care
Twice already Narseary and Vernal Harris have watched a son die. The first time — Paul, at age 26 — was agonizing and frenzied, his body tethered to a machine meant to keep him alive as his incurable sickle cell disease progressed. When the same illness ravaged...
Grief or relief, what is it?
“Carol, I’m so sorry about your dad,” people told me after he died. “I’m sure you miss him.” They were right. I missed him terribly. But, my dad had, effectively, died on an operating table ten years before. The man we just buried was my dad, yet not really. The pain...
Why Are We in Denial About Death?
Physicians and family members must find the courage and compassion to talk about dying before it’s too late.
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