The story depicts my close relationship with Mr Schwartz, an elderly Holocaust survivor,
spanning over 20 years. During those years, he became a significant patient to me; during …

630 October 2003 Family Medicine third segment focuses on the distinction between
preserving a meaningful life versus prolonging life in the face of inevitable death. We …

Amy KaLee Henderson, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,
Maryland. composure in front of him. I often asked them if they had questions about their …

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts
General Hospital, founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center®, a nonprofit organization …

The telephone rang as I brushed my teeth, slipped into an overcoat, and sprang down the
stairs for choir practice. It was the hospital." Sorry," I snapped," not on call."" But doctor, I …

Souls on a Walk is a moving firsthand account of a husband and wife's journey with
Alzheimer's disease during the final chapter of their 56-year marriage. While similar in some …

The Worst Thing Supporting bereaved parents revisiting the worst pain of their lives at a
psychedelic retreat, a palliative care physician and chaplain is cast back into his own family …

I miss my mom, who died last year, and I want to tell the happy story of her death, or perhaps
the story of her happy death through her choosing and accomplishing medical aid in dying …

I am responding to your letters of 12th June, 1999 (received in this office on 15th June,
1999) and that of the same date addressed to Dr. Reid. I am very sorry to hear that you …

On the day before my sister Julie died, I lay down on her bed and held her gingerly in my
arms, afraid that any pressure would hurt her. She had lost so much weight that she looked …