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PopularHow Baby Boomers Will Change End of Life Care
The baby boomers, the largest generation in American history, are now almost all in the last third...
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Medicare Plans to Pay for Counseling on End of Life
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Aug 1, 2015 | Advance Care Planning, Legislation, News | 9 |
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Getting the Right Care, at the Right Time and on your own Terms
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Jun 1, 2015 | News, Tools | 9 |
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Dementia and End of Life
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Feb 1, 2015 | News, Stories | 8 |
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When You Become the Disease
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Sep 1, 2019 | Stories, Tools | 6 |
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LatestIs Dying At Home The Best Option?
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Sep 1, 2020 | Advance Care Planning, News | 1 |
“If time were short, where would you want to be?” As a palliative care clinician, I regularly ask my patients, or their family members, where they want to die. Having asked this of hundreds of patients, I have come to expect...
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The Problem with Miracle Cancer Cures Is…They Are Not!
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Aug 1, 2020 | Advance Care Planning, News | 1 |
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The Footprint of Death
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Jul 1, 2019 | Advance Care Planning, News | 2 |
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Palliative Care and it’s Impact
by Mary Ann Papageorge | May 1, 2019 | News, Stories | 1 |
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It’s Time to Write Your Obituary
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Apr 1, 2019 | Advance Care Planning, News, Tools | 3 |
Illness as a Companion
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Mar 1, 2021 | Diary | 1 |
We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them. This is particularly true of health. When we are in good health, we are so busy in the world that we never even notice how well we are....
Read MoreThe Art of Waiting
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Feb 1, 2021 | Meditation, Stories | 1 |
To paraphrase the writer Viet Thanh Nguyen – the death of each of my patients is lived twice: once in current time and once in memory. Some of my memories of patients are intensely vivid, as if they were shot in...
Read More2021
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Jan 1, 2021 | Compassion, Historical | 0 |
On this last full-moon of the year, we reflect that this has been a year like no other, a year few of us could have ever imagined… a year of loss, a year of uncertainty, a year of adapting… or not. Today, some billions of people...
Read MoreAn Old Lady’s Poem at Christmas Time
by Mary Ann Papageorge | Dec 1, 2020 | Poetry | 2 |
Many Christmas’s ago a patient of mine presented me with this Poem. It became one of my cherished gifts and reminders of who we are as people and particularly patients. What do you see, nurses, what do you see? What are...
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