by Dr Oliver Minton @drol007 and Dr Mark Taubert @DrMarkTaubert Artistic imagery to depict palliative care was the focus of a recent mysterious blog on the BMJ SPCare blog site, and generated much discussion on social media. The theme of this week’s blog is music. A recent music and memory series on BBC Radio 3 reminded […]
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That was the week that was – The @NHS account takeover!
by Dr Ollie Minton Consultant in Palliative Medicine, London, UK Yes, yes, I know I live in an echo chamber/social media bubble and the internet is full of fake news,but unless I imagined the whole experience I was given control of the @NHS twitter account (https://twitter.com/nhs?lang=en) for the week of the 28th August. The […]
Pejorative Words or ‘The bed blocker with acopia in bed 14 that passed away, having lost her fight’
By Dr Ollie Minton (Consultant in Palliative Medicine, somewhere in London town), Dr Erica Borgstrom (Medical Anthropologist, Open University), Dr Mark Taubert (Consultant in Palliative Medicine, somewhere in Wales) When The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published, readers were not much disturbed by Mark Twain’s use of the n-word, let […]
Men and Grief – Beware of typecasting
by Dr Mark Taubert @DrMarkTaubert Clinical Director for Palliative Medicine, Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff There are three good reasons for writing this little essay about the spectre of grief: 1) It is contemporary and topical – for instance, we are in the midst of Dying Matters Awareness week. 2) I have recently spoken to a […]
Palliative care in space – breaking bad news to a satellite
by Dr Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, Wales @DrMarkTaubert What do you do when a piece of debris in space sends out an end of life distress message via Twitter? This particular message read as follows: “Your people predict I will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere early 2017. […]
Palliative or supportive? A rose by any other name
by Dr Ollie Minton, Macmillan consultant and honorary senior lecturer in palliative medicine. I do not assume everyone has an intricate knowledge of Shakespeare but most will be familiar with the balcony scene in Romeo & Juliet. The inference is that the name of something does not affect how it functions. I won’t extrapolate that […]
It’s good to talk and even better to communicate effectively
by Dr Ollie Minton, Macmillan consultant and honorary senior lecturer in palliative medicine I remember the old British Telecom adverts moving from Maureen Lipman’s “ooh he’s got an ology” to the final incarnation of Bob Hoskins “It’s good to talk”. I’m fairly certain after this, the internet took off and the simple phone call was […]
Kate Granger
by Dr Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff On July 23, 2016, Dr. Kate Granger died at St Gemma’s Hospice. Goodbye Kate. Some words. Where can we live, but days? A message you sent me in October 2013 read, “I have high expectations of myself & what I can achieve – I […]
Letter to Bowie read at Hay Festival by Benedict Cumberbatch
A letter written by Dr. Mark Taubert after David Bowie’ s death in January and originally published on our BMJ SPCare blog, was read out by the actor Benedict Cumerbatch at Hay Literary Festival on Saturday the 28th May 2016. Cumberbatch performed the reading as part of an event called Letters Live, organized by Shaun […]