1. The KOHD blog is a resource on all things covered this month… and more.
2. First person
narratives of dying are rare. When you
find them, read them and engage with them.
See: New
Year Letter from a Dying Friend.
3. Katy Butler has
made huge contributions to our understanding about being a caregiver for
elderly people, especially one’s relatives. Her book, Knocking on Heavens Door
is a manual in narrative form. Her occasional essays on the subject are
keepers.
By Katy Butler
December 9, 2015 New York Times
5. Our fee-for-service fragmented medical system is a bad
fit for the frail elderly (and many others as well).
6. Medicare shapes
the way we die by funneling us toward a high-tech hospital death.
7. We should focus on
the Niagara Falls Trajectory: “to
feel as well as possible for as long as possible, until one quickly goes over the
precipice. Quality of life is more important to most of than quantity of days, if
they are miserable days.”
8. Tattooed on my
heart: The practice of medicine is an
art not a trade: a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart
will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will
have nothing to do with powders and potions.
William Osler
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