Get your loved one’s fingerprint! I’m so glad the funeral home suggested it. That’s my dad’s fingerprint on my necklace - I’m so grateful to have it

When you experience traumatic grief the grief and trauma get all mushed together. Sometimes the trauma part can make normal grieving harder
#grieving #caregiver #endoflife

Thank you so very much. Sharing and using it to help has been part of making meaning of it all. Thanks for witnessing 💛

A Call for Medical Aid in Dying: A Tale of Autonomy and Desperation Podcast Episode · The Integrative Palliative Podcast · 03/27/2025 · 18m

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As someone who is actively grieving I appreciate this very much. Thanks!

I’m grieving my own beloved dad right now. It’s not only sad, it’s also exhausting, complicated, and it makes regular life harder than usual. PSA: give grieving people a lot of slack 💛
#grieving #grief

It's #WorldHealthDay! The Canadian Virtual Hospice provides support and personalized information about advanced illness, #PalliativeCare, loss and #Grief to people living with illness, family members, people working in #HealthCare, educators, and researchers.

@maddow.msnbc.com thank you for bravely speaking the truth and sticking up for your coworkers. I am grateful for your example of how to be a deeply decent human!

You are so right and that is well put. Even if your advice is great, the negative impact on the relationship isn’t worth it

I finished recording my audiobook today! (for Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself). I’ve been procrastinating for a year & am so happy to have finally done it! I took 1 tiny step & that got me going. What helps you get unstuck?

Physicians, even elected ones, should support science. People who are in charge of national healthcare should also support science.

I think that’s true!

Does it seem like our nation needs some palliative care? Are we the anxious family with anticipatory grief?
#HPM #palliativecare

If your loved one is aging or seriously ill, don’t mess up your relationship with them by being overly controlling.

When time is short, connection matters.
#caregiving #cancer #palliativecare

Think of two buckets. One bucket holds your preparation for what you hope doesn’t happen and the other bucket holds your hope for a good outcome. Usually when I say this I’m taking about serious illness. But right now that’s not the only place that it applies.

Yes. It all hurts my heart. Thank you for sticking up for what is right!

The CDC is scrubbing manuscripts of gender affirming language? When being kind to other people has become unacceptable, what have we become?
#medsky

Woo hoo!!!!!!

Choose your words carefully when you talk to people who have declining function due to age or illness. Don’t say: “oh is it too hard for you to go out? I’ll bring you lunch.” Say this: “I’m happy to bring lunch to you if you’d prefer”

I love that - human or otherwise 🙂

Yes! Great one

When life is tough…
- do the next reasonably good thing
- breathe slowly and deeply
- share the feelings with someone.
- go outside
- look away from screens
- pet your dog
- get enough sleep
- listen to music that makes your body move
- find something that makes you laugh

What would you add?

Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today

BREAKING: For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) did not go out as scheduled because of a communications pause at federal health agencies issued by the Trump administration. #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

Courage. When the opportunity arises to be courageous, grab it. Tough conversations? Admitting a mistake? Speaking truth to power? Here’s an example of courage

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Yes! Some days more than others

Denial gets a bad rap. Sometimes it is a helpful, temporary coping strategy
#medsky

If you're a physician or clinician with an inking that you'd like to be an entrepreneur, this episode is for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Healing the Heart of the Healer This is the waiting list for an upcoming Healing the Heart of the Healer program for oncology and palliative care clinicians created and led by Delia Chiaramonte, MD who is a physician Board-certified...

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For oncology & palliative care physicians/clinicians: I'm creating a program called Healing the Heart of the Healer for those who feel depleted, disillusioned, or worn out. For now, here's a free 7 step guide to improve wellbeing in clinicians who care for the ill or aging. Link in comments.🌺

You’re right! If it will endanger others (driving for example) then limits are in order. If the risk is just to the person themself then this approach applies