Prognosis

Discussing prognosis can cause more anxiety than good in some...and it may relieve anxiety and the overwhelming sense of uncertainty in...

A “sliding doors moment” is a seemingly inconsequential moment that ultimately affects the trajectory of future events. In this post, I...

Doctors often provide best case scenarios. The best case is what they are hoping for, and it is what they feel most comfortable relaying...

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

How do you spend most of your day? "Am I dying?" This is a question I rarely hear explicitly asked. Sometimes people whose bodies and day...

How has your weight changed in the past year? When a person living with serious illness or advanced disease wants a meaningful response...

What do you have trouble doing now that you could easily do for yourself before? Sometimes a person with a concerning diagnosis or...

Prognosis. Life expectancy. Survival rate. Outlook. Best case, worst case scenario. Sometimes a person does not want to know. Or it does...

"I'll eat whatever I want when I'm terminal." The woman next to him at the dinner party replied, "I'll drink to that. I'm going to eat,...