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How Do Bereaved Parents Contribute to Pediatric Palliative Care? (Interview)
An interview with Dr. Justin Baker, Director of the Pediatric Palliative Care and Quality of Life Service at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Part TwoToday SevenPonds speaks with Dr. Justin Baker, M.D., Faculty Chief of the Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally trained as a pediatric oncologist, Dr. Baker later transitioned to pediatric palliative care and helped establish the first pediatric palliative care team at St. Jude’s.…
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“Poems and Readings for Funerals and Memorials”
Consider a copy for your personalized celebrationAs more and more people opt to create their own personalized celebration in memory of a lost loved one, the need for material from which to create an inspiring memorial event continues to grow. Yet, there has traditionally been a surprising lack of resources offering this kind of content. That is, until Luisa Moncada compiled…
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Are Dementia Patients Being Drugged to Death?
Dangerous drugs are being used far too often, according to a CNN reportDementia causes many troublesome and difficult to manage symptoms. In addition to memory loss, confusion and difficulty concentrating, many dementia patients exhibit challenging behaviors, such as depression, irritability, agitation and wandering. In some patients, these are accompanied by symptoms of psychosis, such as visual hallucinations, delusions and paranoia. Known collectively as behavioral and psychotic symptoms…
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Zoroastrian Towers of Silence
The Zoroastrian exposure burial that predates the Tibetan sky burialThe tradition of sky burials, in which a human corpse is brought to a mountaintop to decompose by exposure to the elements and carrion birds, is practiced in Mongolia, Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Bhutan and parts of India. The Tibetan sky burial and Mongolian sky burial are practices carried out by adherents to Vajrayana Buddhism, which teaches…
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Trends in Healthcare Jobs
The best jobs in the field of healthcareFor some time, the United States has been aware that healthcare jobs are in an upward trend. One major reason for this is the aging Baby Boomers, who are starting to develop health concerns such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, heart disease and stroke. Some of the people with these conditions, such as Alzheimer’s,…
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Hiding the Truth About Heart Failure
Doctors and their patients often keep silent for far too longHeart disease is the number one killer in the United States and has been for over 15 years. Over 600,000 Americans die from heart disease every year, some of them from heart attacks, some from fatal arrhythmias, and some from a slow loss of heart function known as congestive heart failure, or CHF. And while…
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What Is Pediatric Palliative Care? (Interview)
An interview with Dr. Justin Baker, Chief of the Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Part OneToday SevenPonds speaks with Dr. Justin Baker, M.D., Faculty Chief of the Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally trained as a pediatric oncologist, Dr. Baker later transitioned to pediatric palliative care and helped establish the first pediatric palliative care team at St. Jude’s.…
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“On Being Ill”
Woolf dared to write about illness when it was a taboo subjectMost recognized for her feminist novels, Virginia Woolf also broke literary barriers tackling a topic previously shunned by American writers: sickness. “On Being Ill” first appeared in 1926, in an early issue of T.S. Eliot’s literary review, the New Criterion. In the essay, Woolf seeks to establish illness as a serious subject for literature along with the more traditional topics…
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