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How it all began: Founding the first US free-standing pediatric palliative care center (Guest post by Dr. Barbara Beach)

July 13, 2012 | Author
It began with Jim. He was a big-hearted, courageous young man dying of cancer, and I was a young pediatric oncologist at the beginning of my career, not 10 years his senior. Jim simply wanted to die at home, in the company of his mother, away from the hospital where he had spent so many weeks and months battling his disease. Yet as hard as I tried, I wasn’t able to make his final wish possible Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Holistic healing, Humanistic medicine, Patient Centered Care, Pediatrics, Quality of life | 16 Comments »

American Board of Internal Medicine releases new MOC module on Hospice and Palliative Medicine

January 7, 2012 | Author
We have achieved a huge milestone for palliative care. Earn 10 MOC credits by completing of the new ABIM Hospice and Palliative Medicine Self Evaluation Module! This module consists of 25 multiple choice questions, rationale for the answer choices for each question and a set of references. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Bioethics, Cancer, Disease specific issues, Education, Evidenced based medicine, Geriatrics, Grief, Humanistic medicine, Non-pain symptoms, Pain, Pediatrics | 5 Comments »
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