The truth is, the world of medicine has long been home to its own secret language – shorthand acronyms and slang that doctors ...

In rural Haiti, a provider has to rely on a personal connection In “The art of the medical exam” (Opinion, Aug. 14), Elissa Ely wrote of how the visual and physical exam have become less ...

The patient is weighing the fearful price of death, preparing himself to accept the loss of everything and everyone he loves. > The fifth and final stage is acceptance, when at last the condemned ...

When he was dying in New York, none too affluent despite his industrious imagination, his mood seems to have gone back to the fears and trepidations of childhood; for as the light was fading from ...

The New York bill defines “aid in dying” as a medical practice. If a patient qualifies, a doctor can prescribe a lethal dose of drugs that the patient may self-administer to end his or her life.

Nurses With Dying Patients, Share With Us The Most Unexplainable Things You've Ever Witnessed. Raven Ishak. Wed, May 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM UTC. 1 min read.

A patient death can feel like a failure even when it isn’t, said Kheirbek, chief of the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, ...

The Art of Living and Dying. Episode 207 | 56m 49s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Our most basic understanding of life is in many ways determined by our understanding of death.

Art collected from patients with different subtypes of frontotemporal dementia included painting, quilting, jewelry making, sculpture, pottery and montage making. They often had bright colors and ...

I’ve seen just how deeply people are affected when asked to contemplate their future – or the future of someone they love.

For Verghese, it was a moment of clarity about his own dreams and aspirations. "I just remember the words sort of piercing me," Verghese said. "This recognition that, you know, there's only one life." ...