Goals / What's Most Important

Before I started working as a palliative care physician (read Post 1: What Exactly Does a Palliative Care Specialist Do?), I worked as a...

"I admitted Mr. D, a gentleman with moderate to severe dementia last night. He has pneumonia and respiratory failure. I asked Mr. D's...

I have seen my healthcare colleagues become so focused on treating a patient, they forget that the patient is a person with a family. I...

"I don't want to be on dialysis, and I'm afraid of what will happen if I don't start dialysis. What should I do?" Mr. K and his wife are...

The best care possible for a person is guided by how well they communicate what is most important to them to their family, closest...

Lou receives the same cancer diagnosis as May. Both sit with their oncologists and listen to proposed radiation and chemotherapy...