My patient dutifully completed an advanced directive, but that piece of paper didn’t help her to live out her final months with the comfort and dignity that she deserved.
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Tag Archives: Patients
Letting Patients Tell Their Stories
Doctors have many skills, but we often fail to appreciate people’s messy, beautiful lives.
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Bigger Hospital Rooms for Bigger Patients
Parkland Hospital in Dallas was built to accommodate the growing number of obese patients that hospitals across the country increasingly care for.
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Wondering If I Hastened a Patient’s Death
At the very least, I was guilty of that act of hubris of which oncologists are often accused: giving chemotherapy to a person only days before his death.
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Sharing My Story With Patients
For many doctors, facts, figures and data are king. For me, feeling truly vulnerable for the first time has transformed my life and practice.
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Hard Cases: When the Influence of a Patient’s Former Doctor Lingers
In a field with no one right answer, a doctor must deal with patients’ wanting a course of action that the doctor finds perplexing, if not wrong.
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Living With Cancer: Patients on Our Own
Great medical care doesn’t matter if doctors and hospitals fail to adequately advise and care for patients once they leave the hospital, writes Susan Gubar in Living with Cancer.
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Well: Admitted to Your Bedroom: Some Hospitals Try Treating Patients at Home
Under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, a handful of health care systems are hospitalizing patients in their homes.
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Well: The Importance of Sitting With Patients
The most draining aspect of medical training, it turns out, is not long hours, brash colleagues or steep learning curves — it’s the feeling that you’re often unable to be there for your patients in the way you want.
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The Importance of Sitting With Patients
The most draining aspect of medical training, it turns out, is not long hours, brash colleagues or steep learning curves — it’s the feeling that you’re often unable to be there for your patients in the way you want.
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