Only The Humanity

Messages, moments, and musings of a Palliative Care physician

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43 year old metastatic renal carcinoma patient’s father responding to his daughter’s sobbing about how unfair her disease was: you play the hand you’re dealt...

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In the sufferer let me see only the humanity

Maimonides

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social history sadness

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If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it

Atul Gawande Being Mortal

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“What your heart once cherished, you will never lose”