… a film that has won many awards … tells the experiences (through the recovered diary) of an elderly lady living alone in Brooklyn. “Jessie Singer Sylvester moved anonymously through old age in Brooklyn in the 1970s, absorbing one loss after the next — her job of 59 years, her beloved sister, her friends, her […]
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… we swim in a culture of autonomy … independence … But is this what we are in our deepest selves? Lynch discusses … from his book Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless. It is the secret fear of most people that they cannot have both dependence and independence, just as it
“Convalescence” by Luigi Nono … “The formal structure of this painting closely recalls Munch’s “The sick child” (So close and yet so far. JMP 2003;1 (2):39), although the sickness of the child is perceived in a deeply different way. While Munch’s painting is dominated by an anguished desperation, here we find the image of a
… reflections of young Canadian physicians engaged in the euthanasia proposal there … Maximilian Zucchi, Laurence Normand-Rivest … and other voices … John Zucchi, Marc Beauchamp. “At the end of the session, the patient bid her farewells to the physiotherapist, then turned to me and said: “You know, it’s thanks to people like her that
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… an excellent resource for family and caregivers of those with severe dementia. Very practical. Excellent explanations and discussion. “Learning to sit in silence and use the five senses during visits takes practice—it does not seem natural at first. A new kind of relationship may be what your loved one needs at this time. Your
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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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… the story of Vicky, a young lady with HIV, who is healed in her encounter with Rose … it is also told in Greater – Defeating AIDS, an award winning film at Cannes. Vicky is speaking at the Med Conference this weekend.
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… use of the first-person plural … One of our articles in Journal Club this week is Kinsman et. al.’s “We’ll Do this Together”: The Role of the First Person Plural in Fostering Partnership in Patient-physician Relationships. (J Gen Intern Med 25(3):186-93) (NLM link) Tulsky comments in PC-FACS … “This well designed mixed-methods study demonstrates
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… one of the monks martyred in Tibhirine … If it should happen one day—and it could be today—that I become a victim of the terrorism which now seems ready to encompass all the foreigners in Algeria, I would like my community, my Church, my family, to remember that my life was given to God
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… a wonderful glimpse into a community that treasures accompanying its own at the end-of-life. on the “issue” of nutrition-hydration … “And dying people, you can tell when they don’t want to eat or drink. That’s a natural thing.” (see my food & water for the journey at life’s end) “This is what our culture,
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