I didn’t think it strange, growing up around such a perspective. My mother insisted, when I was preschool age, she would want to die if she were severely disabled. We were at the shopping mall, looking for shoes. She said it as breezily as if asking, “Would you like an ice cream?” True to form, […]
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Quick Response Palliative Care: Are wearable medical identification wristbands with QR code technology acceptable to palliative care patients?
Dr Elin Harding, Palliative Medicine Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK ORCID 0009-0003-7100-7998 Dr Martha Thomas, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Princess of Wales, Bridgend, UK 0009-0004-5908-8550 Dr Nikki Pease, Palliative Medicine Consultant, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK 0000-0002-8994-749 In the last year of life, palliative patients increasingly access emergency unscheduled care via […]
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 […]