Authors: Jasmine Reeve-Foster Jasmine is a final year undergraduate medical student currently intercalating in Psychology and Medicine iBSc at Cardiff University Dr. Siwan Seaman is Medical Director, Marie Curie Cymru and Consultant in Palliative Medicine Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is a life-limiting illness affecting 1 in 300 people in the UK. It is characterised […]
Category: Palliative Care
To palliate or not to palliate.
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 The year is 2030. It all started with the most innocuous of phrases: ‘palliation’. A simplified way of saying that someone was dying. At least that’s what everyone thought. Of course […]
Do you have range?
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 The following was recorded directly from an acting seminar in North Wales on how to act like a specialist doctor. The text has been presented in an easy to read format: […]
Controversy: A good death- tyranny or useful concept? By Libby Sallnow and Erica Borgstrom
The publication of a new paper has reignited the age-old debate on the term ‘a good death’. Here, we discuss some of the discussions that emerged as a consequence; Twitter was asked the question, ‘A good death: tyranny or useful concept?’ The responses were critical, varied, came from across the globe, and suggest there remains […]
The Palliative Times
By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Should we see CPR as a form of end of life care? In today’s issue we have focused on a matter of life and death; CPR. CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation has […]
How Edvard Munch helps unlock ‘the secret’ of death
Author: Christiaan A. Rhodius Designation: Elderly Care Physician / Consultant in Palliative Medicine Place of work: Hospice Bardo (Hoofddorp – the Netherlands) Email address crhodius@hospicebardo.nl LinkedIn […]