… an interview with Thea Bowman, “a Franciscan Sister who became a huge inspiration to black Catholic communities, and to wider circles for her joy and gratitude, her nobility of spirit, and her very real spirituality.” “When I first found out I had cancer, I didn’t know if I should pray for healing or life […]
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… you may be surprised at the answer. This is supported by the experience of many of us as well as this article about the use of feeding tubes or gentle hand feeding in nursing homes.
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The Sick Child Edvard Munch Read the commentary in Journal of Medicine & the Person.
entering the loneliness of the other … Read More »
… only when you stop trying to live longer … Gawande on hospice care … an interview on npr.
… He knew how to listen. He listened intensely. He was not listening for the slip where he could introduce a wedge of condemnation, but so that he could grasp all the energy of the hidden spring from which words pour forth. And when he answered, he would unveil prospects that attracted his interlocutor, like
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… a profile of Daniel Sulmasy… a Franciscan brother who is also a … physician, philosopher & member of the Obama administration’s bioethics council. “There is no heroic physician who inspires my medicine. It is more about St. Francis embracing the leper. That is the sort of way in which I’m inspired to be a
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… considered by many the greatest American painting of the 19th century, The Gross Clinic has recently been restored and will go on display today at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “This complex story of healing will be the subject of the exhibition “An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew.” (Philadelphia Inquirer) Clyde
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… Robert Pollack shares his thoughts on our modern day rituals of death … “The current hospital response of science to the dying … goes something like this: “You have had the misfortune to be born too soon to benefit from science’s ever deeper comprehension of nature. That is too bad, but since we can
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… Giancarlo Cesana’s reflections on our limitedness. “Limits are our human condition, to be shared. This is the only way in which we can respect also the people whose limitations are apparently more evident than ours.” “If I am the ugliest man in the world, but the most beautiful woman in the world loves me,
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