Dear Judy,
I have to comment on the drugs/no drugs issue.
I hear these disputes all the time from lay people as well as medical folks. Here’s my take on the matter:
Treat the symptoms that appear – pain, shortness of breath — with the smallest amount of medication that will do the job! No more, no less.
Dying is [...]
Dear Judy,
I was asked to fill in to care for a woman with colon cancer a few days ago. She is only in her 40’s which makes it that much harder.
I met her in her living room, sitting in a recliner. She lives alone but has friends and neighbors who take turns being with her
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Dear Readers:
Jeanne Frye is a longtime hospice nurse of uncommon experience, intelligence and compassion. About 40 times in the past year, readers have emailed me, asking how to deliver the bad news — word of impending death — to someone they love. Here’s Jeanne’s brilliant and thoughtful reply:
“No one wants to be the bearer of bad [...]
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