(Featured photo: Courtesy of Beth Macdonald) For those of us in our later years, we know what Atul Gawande means as he documents the importance of the quality of life in his book, “Mortality: Medicine and What Matters in the End” Atul talked with Juergen Bludau, a geriatrician, who told him the job of any
This is a review by “vote” of my readers of the most read of 71 blogs published in the past year. The reasons why these emerged as the top twelve may have to do with the content, where they appeared, how and when they were shared, and a few other unknown variables, such as the
Orig, 2012 Rev. 2023 A funny thing happened in late 2012 on the way to Best Buy. I was listening to NPR and an interview with Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff. If you know the book, then nothing more need be said but if you don’t, the sub-title is “How Our Obsession
Death comes for all of us regardless of age. In 2022, about 3.27 million deaths were reported in the United States and here’s a breakdown of the causes as reported in 2021: The top 10 causes accounted for almost 75% of all deaths in the U.S. in 2021. Heart disease (695,547) Cancer (605,213) COVID-19 (416,893)
ARRIVING Advent is two-thirds of adventure, the other third being the suffix ure. an abstract-noun suffix of action, and result, occurring in words from French and Latin: pressure; legislature. In the world of medicine, we have procedures, and established ways of doing something. My life has been a big adventure and a series of
I am pleased to introduce my guest, Hazel Bridges, who has written a wonderfully helpful piece for those dealing with grief or who may be facing that inevitability in the near or distant future. Please feel free to offer comments for Hazel and I will be sure she sees them and can respond. Thanks!
