conscience regs update …
… Robert Vischer summarizes the health care conscience situation since the administration’s recent release of its conscience regs.
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binsey poplars … felled …
Binsey Poplars Gerard Manley Hopkins felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow & river & wind-wandering weed-winding
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gawande on solitary confinement …
… we are social beings … relational … on our death bed, all we will have is our relationships. “Everyone’s identity is socially created: it’s through your relationships that you understand yourself as a mother or a father, a teacher or an accountant, a hero or a villain.” Hellhole – Atul Gawande – New Yorker
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suicide at life’s end …
… handout posted “What must be made very clear here, is that patients who are suffering during the dying process, and contemplate PAS because they feel they have lost all meaning, dignity and purpose in life, are asking physicians, “Do you agree that my life is worthless because I am dying? They are searching in
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that gaze and that hand …
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) – Louis Henry Vaquez at “La Pitié” hospital (1921), Oil on canvas, National Academy of Medicine, Paris The assistants take part in the general atmosphere and in the gestures of their chief and mentor, as they watch the patient, who constitutes the real focus of the painting; the lines drawn from the
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the illusion of the ‘young old’ …
… Lorenzo Albacete on the ‘young old‘ … ” …we are facing the emergence of a new cultural world: that of the “young old, “separate from that of the “old old.” However, this new cultural category is based on a lie, as Jacoby remarks: “At 85 or 90, whatever satisfaction may still lie ahead, only
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iPatient …
… Abraham Verghese discusses some of the consequences of not attending to our patients as persons. Luigi Giussani in The Religious Sense makes much the same point in quoting and discussing a passage of Alexis Carrel … “as everyone knows, few observations and much discussion are conducive to error; much observation and little discussion to
between heaven and earth …
‘Of Gods and Men’ opens this weekend … … The New York Times review … America Magazine review … trailer … show times around the country … related post here
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a balm for gilead …
A Balm for Gilead: Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts by Daniel Sulmasy OFM MD PhD. One of the best lines … “Suffering is what remains when one’s control runs out.” (p 62) The funniest line … “Every honest wife should know that she will have no more control over her husband once he
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balm in Gilead …
There is a balm in Gilead To make the wounded whole; There is a balm in Gilead To heal the sin-sick soul. Some times I feel discouraged, And think my work’s in vain, But then the Holy Spirit Revives my soul again. If you can’t preach like Peter, If you can’t pray like Paul, Just